Word: birthdaying
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...sipped champagne and celebrated victory. The scene was one of sublime Schadenfreude Tuesday night, as Radcliffe Union of Students Co-Chair Dara F. Goodman ’07 and friends toasted the announcement of Summers’ resignation. Laissez les bons temps rouler! It looked like your average 21st birthday, or a rendezvous between friends to celebrate a job offer. Until you started listening to the party chatter. “Down with the king!” one male Summers-hater shouted, as the revelers tossed back plastic flutes of cheap bubbly. Another gleefully chimed...
...Night Watch] it suddenly made sense." Waters maintains her trademark plot-twisting - the full connections between some of the characters aren't revealed until the reader meets them in 1941 - and her attention to detail. She focuses on seemingly ordinary things that were luxuries at the time - a birthday orange, tins of meat, gin gimlets - to bring home a sense of the austerity of the period and the extraordinary situations Londoners found themselves in. Her meticulous revivals range from the mundane ("Their stockings were darned at the toes and heels. Their shoes were scuffed; everybody's were") to the shocking...
...annual February feature. Carter G. Woodson earned a Ph.D in history from Harvard in 1912—becoming the second black to receive a doctorate from the University. Fourteen years later, he founded Negro History Week, selecting a seven-day span in February that included the Feb. 7 birthday of abolitionist Frederick Douglass and the Feb. 12 birthday of Abraham Lincoln. A half-century later, as Woodson’s invention gained popularity, the week evolved into a full month. But last December, Woodson’s brainchild weathered criticism from actor Morgan Freeman, who suggested that Black History Month...
...think it’s going to be on my birthday. It’s funny—doubling up holidays again...
...have no idea whether or not the story is true, but it’s a delight to be able to jog along JFK Street and think to myself, “Pssh. This guy might have a damn street named after him, but I used to get birthday presents from a dude who totally annihilated him in a bout of fisticuffs...