Word: cherishing
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...fact, far from being simple and banal, the final monologue is turgid and confusing. The closing act abandons comedy altogether for a sentimental affirmation of life as something to cherish by mixing a heavy dose of Thoreau with Davis' own ardent declamations. The rather opaque passages from "Higher Laws," "Solitude" and other essays are further obscured by Davis' casual commentary scattered throughout. When finally he concludes that he is "everything God intended in man," he is everyone from Jesus to Ghandi to Ghengis Khan, the poetics ring hollow...
...with his little boys once and he seemed so happy. The bottom line is that John tried to kill two policemen, but he did cherish his children. That's what makes it so difficult." Reverend Robert Doherty, describing paroled killer John J. MacNeil, who was killed Friday night in a shootout with
...chapter, across the decades. Men in his plots are isolated from women; wives die in childbirth or simply pack up and move out; lovers pine or sulk offstage. Blacks and whites are of course isolated from one another, even when bound by love and blood kinship. Sons and fathers cherish obscure bitternes, then meet after years of silence and fail to reconcile. Acts of love are intense but always precarious and often deadly...
AAAH, remember lunches in the Union--those days when you sat, nibbling at your chickwich in a crowd of entry mates, staring up in awe at the antler chandeliers and wondering if Teddy Roosevelt really had anything to do with them? Well, cherish that memory if you're not a senior. Once first-year dining has moved over to Memorial Hall, you won't even have a Return-to-the-Union "Champagne Senior Brunch" to remind...
...most and savor house life to the fullest. Each house resident would consider it an honor to live in that house and sense the responsibility to carry the tradition on. In contrast, what today's chaotic and confusing lottery process brings about is that we might no longer cherish the pride of living in a certain house, because the computer gets us there. When total randomization takes over from the next year on, future Harvardians living in Adams will never know that once upon a time this old dark place was mecca for artists...