Word: canted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that rigid secularity and cloying, politically correct euphemisms like "holiday season" and "millennial observance" are to be applauded, mind you. Far from it. But even if Harvard were to rid itself of the prejudices of enlightened academia and their attendant cant, it would still be incongruous for our University to make even a half-hearted attempt at celebrating Christmas. The Christmas spirit, to invoke a hackneyed but useful phrase, just doesn't fit in with the spirit of Harvard...
...told the Annenberg worker that neither my internal clock nor my class schedule meshed with the dining service meal hours. I knew I would be hungry later, and I was simply trying to plan ahead. Left without hope for a midnight snack, I chewed on the question, "Why cant a student take food out of the dining hall...
...Paul Taylor's Company B, surpasses both the others in interest, impact and emotion. A tribute to wartime America, Taylor uses memorable songs sung by the Andrews Sisters and ingenious choreography to place the audience in the midst of history and delve into wartime issues. From "I Can Dream, Cant I?" (a song about a woman whose love is overseas) to the "Pennsylvania Polka," Taylor's work explores many of the human faces and emotions of war. Overall, Company B gave a very real, human, touching experience of wartime life...
...That red bull stuff you wrote about in your last issue is the best ever I havenit slept for forty six hours straight you know what Iim saying if you know what I mean you know a drink is money when you cant stop shaking man I havenit had such a good time since the last time I did crank at the spee...
...people leave the house anymore--something that seems to be increasingly unnecessary these days, a hundred years ago. Not that leaving the house is always a good idea. Outside lies the wide and brittle world of wars, gunplay, scandal, disease, superstition, categorical hatreds, willful ignorance, envy, pettiness and cant. In your perfected age, all such things undoubtedly have been eradicated. (How I wish I could hear your laughter...