Word: conrade
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yale is located in beautiful New Haven, Connecticut, ranked number one by Money Magazine as the most dangerous place in America to bring actual currency. The atmosphere in New Haven--which Joseph Conrad attempted to capture in his famous work Heart of Darkness--is fertile ground for the development of young intellects. Jedidiah S. Purdy '97 attended Harvard, but not until arriving at Yale Law School did he recognize that Seinfeld was a show built around an ironic sensibility. Purdy wrote a book about this observation, which made quite a stir at Yale where most people have had their televisions...
...Parker R. Conrad...
...like an arthritic thumb high above the antarctic ice cap, the mountain's uppermost point was so small and precarious that it could accommodate only one person at a time. So I shivered on a ledge in the subzero breeze and waited for my partners, first Alex and then Conrad, to climb the final 20 ft. to the summit. We'd been on the move for 14 hours. My back hurt, and I had lost all feeling in my toes. But as my eyes wandered across the frozen vastness of Queen Maud Land, a sense of profound contentment radiated from...
...mountain, called the Troll Castle, is an unearthly fin of weathered granite that pokes a vertical mile from its icebound surroundings. Only a handful of people knew, or cared, that it existed; fewer still had actually laid eyes on the peak. Alex, Conrad and I were the first who had gone to the trouble to climb it, and the view from the top was ample reward. Countless other rock towers, equally strange and beautiful, rise from the ice in all directions, resembling gargantuan sailboats plying a chalk-white...
...wonderfully and subtly presented. He envisions Americans as having cut themselves off from one another, isolated with their own cars, their own garbage disposals, and own lives, totally independent and disconnected. Windows are used not as views to the outside world but as voyeuristic peeks into others' lives. Cinematographer Conrad Hall furthers Mendes' vision with brilliant use of color, making the typical suburban home a mystical and, at times, beautiful setting...