Word: bard
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...easy to see why. Otsuka has planned every detail of the café, from the two months of training would-be butlers undergo to the grandfather clock by the fireplace to the leather volumes of obscure poetry (by that famous Victorian bard, William Allingham) that adorn the shelves. "There's no place like this, so we had to make it from our imagination," says Otsuka. It doesn't hurt that the food is surprisingly good, prepared with the help of Paul Okada, a hospitality consultant who spent 12 years as the food-and-beverage director at the Four Seasons Tokyo...
...Church. The white marble, says Professor James Strange, an archaelogist at the University of South Florida "immediately tells you that this was a self-conscious, elaborate ritual burial" of a sort that the church at Paul's time would not have been capable. The Latin inscription, says Bard College's Bruce Chilton, author of a book about Paul, does not reflect Paul's Roman Christian community, which would have written it in Greek...
...upon by the state but beloved by the people emerged as the only form of spontaneous public protest." Furman invoked the funeral of poet Boris Pasternak in 1960, which grew into the first spontaneous demonstration by the Soviet intelligentsia in decades. He also recalled the funeral of poet and bard Vladimir Vysotsky in 1980. In contrast to the refined Pasternak, the folksy Vysotsky, perennially restricted and harassed by the authorities, was as popular among ordinary Soviets as Elvis Presley had been among the Americans. Vysotsky's funeral grew into the first mass people's demonstration in Moscow, and so scared...
...You’re making me Yarvard Hard.” Robertson opened the band’s usual improvisational song with, “Parked my car in Harvard Yard, I’d say it with an accent, but I’m not a Harvard bard.” Harvard bards or not, the Ladies certainly have a Harvard following. “They just ended up being really nice, laid back guys” said Shirley L. Hufstedler ’07, a drummer for the campus band Plan B for the Type...
...like, which I don't necessarily want to consider. I might discover all sorts of horrible things about myself." On the other hand, it might provide all sorts of suitably horrible material for another novel. What fresh hell will he invent next? "I haven't decided yet," says the bard of Shepperton. "I'm waiting for the next shift in the weather. I spend a lot of time looking...