Word: bittersweet
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Hayward gives a rather bittersweet congratulations to Bowman and Hysen. Zhang claims that he and Hayward only wanted to "leave Harvard better than when we started." Both hope that the issues raised by their campaign would be addressed...
...departing seniors looked back on the weekend with a bittersweet sense of finality...
Harvard sailing battled its way through the Atlantic Coast Championships this weekend, coming out with bittersweet results and determination to improve from their mistakes when they hoist their sails again in the spring. The co-ed team took eighth place out of 18, while the women took 14th...
While I no longer wear the glasses, I somehow can’t bring myself to throw them away. They’re a reminder of the bittersweet, adolescent sense of insecurity that took me a decade to overcome; and its nice to be reminded of ones triumphs. Plus, I might need them in case I ever run into Miss Baker again...
...Strauss’ lovely travelogue-cum-memoir Tristes Tropiques. Indeed, Lévi-Strauss’ own work can be divided into two categories: Tristes Tropiques, and everything else. Cherished as a formative influence by many established anthropologists, the slim volume sets down in pearlescent prose all the bittersweet joys of the profession, absent in Lévi-Strauss’ more detached volumes of scholarship. This elegiac tone evolved into outright pessimism as he grew older; in one of his last interviews he flatly states that “the world on which I am finishing my existence...