Word: brightnesses
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...time. So why did my husband and I consign ourselves to this exclusive penitentiary? An old friend and retreat veteran bamboozled us into joining her by making it sound like a spa. "It's lovely. Lovely walks, lovely yoga, lovely massages," she said. In retrospect, her eyes were suspiciously bright as she added: "And you'll love Lisa." Love is a many-splendored thing. Day 3 and my husband has a new refrain: "If you really loved me, you'd take me away from this." Jeans avers that guests often feel "a little low on the third day. I tell...
...have no conclusions on charity—whether I should aim for efficacy or temper productivity with self-gratification. But the hassle of good works in a well-known place makes one daydream of absconding to the blissful tropics, like those bright-eyed Canadians...
...team has little time to sulk, having received its first invitation to the NCAA tournament in ten years.But before learning of its opening-round date with Syracuse this weekend, the team’s focus was on how close the Crimson came to ending its regular season on a bright note.“We kind of wasted his effort,” Harvard coach Scott Anderson said. “I don’t even know what the statistics were for the game, but it was unbelievable.”Flood helped the Crimson gain control...
...small study with huge repercussions. He reported that 9 out of 19 autistic children taught for 40 hours a week with behaviorist methods had big jumps in IQ and were able to pass first grade; only 1 out of 40 in control groups did so. It was the first bright ray of hope in autism...
...triangles, called a diagrid, in off-white stainless steel. That serpentine frame is both structural--it supports most of the building's weight--and delightful. It makes of the whole exterior a cage where sunlight plays all day. In the morning the light slaloms up and down the bright diagonals. At twilight those same lines glow. And because the diagrid divides the building into four-story segments, it provides a human scale that an unbroken glass-curtain wall would not. Who cares that it tiptoes right up to the edge of gaudy? Given the mediocrity of so much that...