Word: conan
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...also thank Conan C. O’Brien ’85 for lining up tennis star Serena Williams along with Simpsons voices Nancy Cartwright, Dan Castellaneta and Harry Shearer for Thursday night’s show. Truthfully, I’m wondering how Conan, former president of the semi-secret Sorento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine as well as ex-Simpsons writer and producer, will manage to devote enough attention to Serena with the likes of Bart, Homer and Mr. Burns around...
...roughly 37 degrees - 49 degrees North," is a typical insight. One setback after another must be overcome with ingenuity. Naturally, as a Jason Shiga book, the man's story proves to be far from predictable. "Fleep" has the kind of ingenious plot that would be worthy of Arthur Conan Doyle...
...book titled Atlantis Rising: The True Story of a Submerged Land, Yesterday and Today. I talked to scientists from the recently deceased paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould to the great naturalist Bil Gilbert. I investigated the old hoo-hah espoused by such as Ignatius Donnelly, Jules V erne and Arthur Conan Doyle, and looked into the sounder theories of bygone thinkers such as Rachel Carson and J.V. Luce. I developed a Deep Throat source at the venerable Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute on Cape Cod in Massachusetts and, frankly, I myself got in a bit too deep...
While others such as 2000 Class Day speaker Conan C. O’Brien ’85 cut their teeth writing for the Harvard Lampoon, Franken was rejected from the semi-secret Sorrento Square organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...
When an author breaches that core, as Carol S. Dweck does in her contribution “Beliefs that Make Smart People Dumb,” the insights can be weighty and provocative. She posits that smart people behave stupidly precisely because they possess great intelligence. Arthur Conan Doyle, of Sherlock Holmes fame, is a prime example. The author’s creation was famous for debunking supernatural phenomenon by giving them rational explanations. Doyle himself, however was a disciple of the supernatural and a great believer in the fantastical apparitions revealed during seances. Though Holmes would argue that these...