Word: bittersweets
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...whole graduation thing is a little bittersweet. When it all comes down to it, it’s a blank diploma...
...October 2001. Williams, "the Splendid Splinter," was on his deathbed in Florida. Pesky and DiMaggio, both in their 80s, embarked on a 1,300-mile car trip to visit him. Halberstam braids together the story of their road trip--that other great American pastime--with an account of their bittersweet seasons as Red Sox. Though they played as a foursome from 1942 to 1951, minus a few years for World War II, they never won a World Series, and in 1949 they lost the pennant to the New York Yankees on the last day of the regular season...
...falls in love with her new home at first sight, and if The Quality of Life Report (Viking; 309 pages), a comic, caustic first novel by essayist and National Public Radio regular Meghan Daum, were any less honest, her story could have ended on page 15. But Daum's bittersweet deconstruction of Lucinda's illusions reads like The Bridges of Madison County etched in acid. Lucinda acquires a boyfriend, an apathetic woodsman named Mason Clay, who--while he bears a passing resemblance to Sam Shepard and says "warsh" instead of "wash"--turns out to be both much more and much...
Harvard softball coach Jenny Allard said that her team has played its best softball of the year this past week. It’s a bittersweet achievement because the season is over...
It’s not every FM interviewee who arrives with a bittersweet chocolate cake in tow. The cake in question has chocolate ganache frosting flavored with Cointreau and cognac. Thomas C. Gilmore ’06 has just made himself a very popular guy. As onlookers eagerly devour his creation, Gilmore explains his love of all things sweet. “I’ve always been slightly interested in baking and cooking,” the chef begins modestly. It wasn’t until last year, however, that Gilmore began to seriously pursue his hobby. A high...