Word: bricked
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Couturier has moved between 1,000 and 1,500 buildings over the course of his career. A recent job involved raising a 400-ton brick building up one floor to make room for a ground-level shopping center...
...Harvard. (When I shared this theory with my father, he snorted and said, “Maybe he sneaks in the back door at Hampshire.”) What few of our rebellious impulses weren’t screened out by the admissions office are promptly smothered under red brick and ivy. Even our youthful indiscretions—despoiling the John Harvard statue, say, or running primal scream—groan under the weight of tradition...
...still have a healthy skepticism for people who romanticize the Harvard undergraduate experience, and worry aloud about how they will ever survive without its red-brick classrooms and tweedy professors. (The answer: most of them won’t, and you’ll still see them here in six years’ time, working on Ph.D.s, or enrolling at the Divinity School.) The notion that Harvard is an oasis of perfection in the midst of a barren and inhospitable desert has always seemed to me, and continues to seem, somewhat naïve and cowardly. In fact...
...still have a healthy skepticism for people who romanticize the Harvard undergraduate experience, and worry aloud about how they will ever survive without its red-brick classrooms and tweedy professors. (The answer: most of them won’t, and you’ll still see them here in six years’ time, working on Ph.D.s, or enrolling at the Divinity School.) The notion that Harvard is an oasis of perfection in the midst of a barren and inhospitable desert has always seemed to me, and continues to seem, somewhat naïve and cowardly. In fact...
...Brown’s goaltender Jay Fantone was like a “brick wall” according to coach Russell...