Word: bemoaner
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...best attempt at sushi. Perhaps this simultaneous familiarity and singularity was exactly why the dish was so good. Like Green Tea Kit Kat or a modern building with ancient design elements, fusing the old with the new is unparalleled when done right. Unlike New York whose residents bemoan gentrification and Paris whose Centre Pompidou and National Library offer a morbid look at modernization, Tokyo knows how to mix tradition with transformation. Shrines are married seamlessly to the city landscape, the modern buildings are marked with ancient Japanese touches like glass panes that imitate noren (a traditional cloth), and midtown high...
...passionate, purposeless quarreling continues while the underlying issues go unaddressed. It goes to show that, when it comes down to it, it’s not overcoming problems that counts—it’s the opportunity to bemoan them to anyone who’ll listen. Thus, we should see this moment as a chance for change. Can’t we at least begin complaining about complaining about complaining...
...Conservatives often bemoan the loss of childhood innocence, over-sexualization and teenage promiscuity (the last of which has in fact seen a decrease in recent years). Instead, we should bemoan the loss of childhood formlessness, that is, the loss of individualistic perception and its replacement by an adult brand of group-think, whereby a collection of facts automatically leads to a rule. Certainly, in a more child-like, fluid, and flexible society, social dynamics would be more confusing, but they would also be more free, fulfilling, and exciting...
...natural. Aside from American booty shaking practices, beer pong, and Harvard’s expansion plan, the trip to Cambridge is the first time many delegates have ever seen snow. The Malaysian delegate that Wei hosted last year was ecstatic about the fluffy flakes that many Harvard students so bemoan. “We took her outside and made snow angels,” says Wei. The students shared traditions unique to Harvard, as well. After explaining primal scream to a Japanese delegate, Wei inspired him to take the custom back to his own campus. The University of Tokyo will...
...Maximum-Security Manger Like Jamil Hamad, I too bemoan the changes that have transformed Bethlehem [Dec. 31, 2007-Jan. 7, 2008]. I do so as a former Israeli soldier who had the honor of guarding the Church of the Nativity when the city was still under Israeli control. But I take issue with a number of subtle insinuations in Hamad's article. He was critical of the security checkpoints, but since the city is no longer under Israeli control, why should the crossing into Israel be different from those between the U.S. and Canada or Mexico, for instance? Hamad also...