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...happy to see snow again, after last year's maelstrom blizzard which kept me out of school for January," said Chris Paul '98. "I like snow, I always have...
Foley is also betting that self-interest will win out in the end. "The majority of people in my district think the job of a member of Congress is to constructively support local education, local transportation and law enforcement," he told TIME. The Speaker announced a blizzard of new federal projects for Spokane, including doubling the size of the survival-training school at Fairchild Air Force Base -- a facility, Foley added, that he had helped save from closure. He also noted that Spokane, a city where violent crime already runs well below the national average, will get more new cops...
Phrases like these -- or worse -- will probably never enter the realm of polite discourse, and perhaps that is just as well. Still, some instances of slang can gain such acceptance that they become useful as colloquialisms and even enter Standard English over time -- for example, blizzard, disk jockey and gadget...
What happened? The pieces selected for this collection -- on Mozart, F.D.R., J.F.K., the media blizzard that can confuse rather than inform, the political and intellectual ideologues who reduce philosophy and art to pseudoscientific theory -- were written over the past three decades and are too separated by time and subject to provide a coherent analysis. For that the reader should turn to The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom, Bellow's late friend and colleague at the University of Chicago. Yet even if It All Adds Up is more an agglomeration of rants than a systematic critique...
Furthermore, this was not the first blackout at Tufts in recent years. Students at Tufts said there have been blackouts on campus during their exams. A blizzard a couple of years ago halted a Graduate Record Examination (GRE) at Tufts. Of course, there is reason behind this statistical improbability: Tufts is located at the highest point in the Boston area and is specially susceptible to power outages...