Word: cleverisms
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...Harvard and Yale Glee Clubs’ annual collaboration, or scope out the Harvard Krokodiloes and the Yale Whiffenpoofs at Memorial Church. Post-game, don’t fret: the Harvard Din and Tonics, the Radcliffe Pitches, and the Yale Spizzwinks perform in one concert, the Harvard-Yale Jamboree (clever title no additional charge). Glee Club Concert Fri., Nov. 17 at 8 p.m. Sanders Theatre. Tickets $8 for students. Kroks Concert Fri., Nov. 17 at 8 p.m. Memorial Church. Tickets $5 for students. Dins and Pitches Concert Sat., Nov. 18 at 8 p.m. Sanders Theatre. Tickets $8 for students...
...book is filled with these factoids humanizing figures that have become emblazoned in our historical memory. Lonely hearts at Harvard may take some solace in knowing that it was only through the clever machinations of Aaron Burr and Martha Washington that James Madison’s five-foot five-inch bod landed Dolley Payne, a “buxom brunette with remarkably fair skin.” The future Mrs. Madison would later spark a fashion trend as each of her dresses were “set off with ostrich plumes and feathery birds of paradise and topped those creations...
...after the first Gulf War, Robert Gates liked to tell a story about his boss, George Herbert Walker Bush. As Bush 41 was preparing to invade Kuwait in 1990 and free that nation from the clutches of Saddam Hussein, Pentagon generals came up with what they thought was a clever scheme that might prevent the President from going to war. Gates was in the Oval Office when the generals brought in maps, charts and pointers and told Bush that Kuwait could be liberated only if he was willing to spend six months deploying half a million troops halfway round...
...record show that it was a clever marketing ploy for Criterion to number its releases, with the number printed on the spine of the packaging. That lets you know, when you look at your collection lined up on a shelf, where the gaps are. The dedicated collector will feel these gaps like they were missing bicuspids. This plays to his or her worst pathologies and has probably boosted Criterion's profit margins by a healthy amount every year...
...never repented - never saw the need to. Markus Wolf was so clever a spymaster that the fact he worked for East Germany, a repugnant regime that rightly disappeared into history's dustbin, never dented the massive ego that had driven his success. When he died Thursday at 83, quietly in his Berlin apartment, on the 17th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Wolf thought himself a victim of victor's justice that had denied him the esteem he deserved-and he took countless secrets to his grave...