Word: block
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Three house students and two members of the Senior Common Room serve asrepresentatives on the search committee. JenniferY. Block '88, William C. Meyer '86, and Robert N.Walton '87 were selected as Mather's studentrepresentatives, and Senior Tutor Terry K. Shallerwill represent the Senior Common Room with John D.Montgomery, former chairman of the GovernmentDepartment and a house fellow...
...visit to New York City's Carnegie Hall last week, Muti offered a program that exemplified the merits of such an approach. Three obscure vignettes written around the turn of the century by Italian Composer Giuseppe Martucci, chips off the old Puccinian block, got glowing, almost impressionistic ; readings. By contrast, Richard Wernick's new Violin Concerto had a hard, steely edge. Although the work proved to be much strenuous ado about nothing, it was energetically performed by the Philadelphians and Soloist Gregory Fulkerson. Finally, Dvorak's undeservedly neglected Fifth Symphony received a taut performance that, among other virtues, was notable...
...Faberge with a crowing rooster inside. The purchase gave Forbes eleven Imperial Faberges, making his the largest collection in the world--one ahead of the Armoury Museum in the Kremlin. Aryeh, hoping that his egg could fetch an equally royal bid, decided to put it on the block at Christie's in Manhattan...
...BIGGEST STUMBLING block to enjoying this film is the difficulty that you will undoubtedly encounter in correctly understanding it. As far as I can remember, the film's plot involved the aforementioned good-looking Arab trying to garner the favour of his people by convincing them that he possesses bizarre mystical and religious powers. (Precisely why he wishes to establish himself as a figure of such supreme adulation is left unclear, but let's just assume that life, liberty, and the pursuit of an American Express Platinum Card have something to do with it.) Because he, of course...
...room had stuffed a towel under their door. At one point the two had poured cologne under the door of their friends' room, hoping to overwhelm them with the scent. The occupants of the room mopped up the cologne with the towel and stuffed it under the door to block further intrusions before going to sleep, according to B-entry resident tutor Karen Natalie...