Word: barrenly
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...tweedy professors. (The answer: most of them won’t, and you’ll still see them here in six years’ time, working on Ph.D.s, or enrolling at the Divinity School.) The notion that Harvard is an oasis of perfection in the midst of a barren and inhospitable desert has always seemed to me, and continues to seem, somewhat naïve and cowardly. In fact, I’m certainly ready to leave Harvard behind. No disrespect to my roommate, but from now on if I live with someone, I had better be dating...
...tweedy professors. (The answer: most of them won’t, and you’ll still see them here in six years’ time, working on Ph.D.s, or enrolling at the Divinity School.) The notion that Harvard is an oasis of perfection in the midst of a barren and inhospitable desert has always seemed to me, and continues to seem, somewhat naïve and cowardly. In fact, I’m certainly ready to leave Harvard behind. No disrespect to my roommate, but from now on if I live with someone, I had better be dating...
...BARREN LAND The country has no permanent rivers or lakes. The "empty quarter" is one of the largest sand deserts in the world
Within weeks, thousands of undergraduates will encounter similarly barren suites. But seeing the sparsely furnished dormitory room for the first time heralded the return of a lifestyle Romano L. Mazzoli has not known for half a century...
...vacationers shuttered, flanked only by the occasional uniformed soldier and his strapped carbine. The children who normally would have swarmed the beaches to greet the Senegalese presidential yacht, were kept well out of sight, behind ubiquitous metal cordons. To brighten their penning they draped the bars of the barren blockades with intensely colored local tapestries and played soccer in the dirt courtyard while they waited...