Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the common perception, the Shooting Club uses shotguns, not rifles. A rifle's ammunition can travel up to three miles in distance, while the bead-size pellets of shotguns travel no more than 40 or 50 yards, according to Jobin...
...with a variety of jobs, including a stint as a nightclub bouncer), Foster loved utilitarian buildings: barns, factories, windmills. He did measured drawings of them when other students were drawing buildings they had never seen: Greek temples, Palladian villas. Foster would learn from those too, but his immersion in common language and use translates into a feeling of rightness, which works as completely in small structures as in large. A fine example of the former is the entrances to the subway system he designed for Bilbao in northern Spain: hoods of glass, like segments of a nautilus shell ribbed with...
...went to the Harvard Store during our first week to register for our free Class of `99 T-shirt; some of us even went so far as to buy the big, red felt Harvard 1999 pennant and hang it above our mantel. But where would you find such a common room today? I think the pennants went into storage after first semester of sophomore year, and I have yet to see a senior suite that willfully betrays its occupants' class-year. These days, a Harvard 1999 pennant on the wall would seem as repellent as Serbian ultra-nationalism...
...past, the coat problem has been particularly embarrassing for at the end of the evening because I sport the gray J. Crew pea coat model that everyone seems to have. Finding my own coat can be a critical yet often tricky task in badly lit and crowded common rooms...
...takefrom Hemingway the Biblical repetition, the artfulnonsequiter, the pacing, the avoidance of emotionthat brings on tears, the distanced voice. Theshort stories and A Farewell are enough,alone, to teach writers about this writing ofomission, writing that evokes sentiment withoutbeing sentimental, that somehow captures therhythms of both poetry and of common speech...