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...hand. Former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, he says, turned Canada 'into a people of whining, politically conformist welfare addicts' ... He describes the late Robert Maxwell, kleptocratic owner of the Daily Mirror and the New York Daily News, as 'an endomorphic ... poseur, fugitive and confidence trickster' ... [Black] is uncharacteristically cryptic about the future of newspaper publishing, noting simply that 'literacy and the printed word are not as out of fashion as many have feared...
...slated to continue for a while, and that is fine by me, because I’m kind of digging Taylor. C’mon…admit that the whole “mentally unstable” thing is sort of a turn-on. Now, onto the cryptic finale of the episode. After Marissa commented on how she is so pleased that Ryan is so balanced and calm this year, Ryan entered the poolhouse, gazed pensively at his punching bag, and then beat the crap out of that mofo! Why? We don’t know. I sat wondering?...
...wouldn’t expect it, this harder sound really enhances Oldham’s vocal performance: he forsakes the irritating mumble-whisper delivery of albums past for throatier, fuller vocalizations. As a result, this is one of the few albums in which all of Oldham’s cryptic lyrics are intelligible. And Oldham is some kind of lyricist: his language marries the lovelorn yearning of Leonard Cohen to the incantatory power of Neil Young. On the album’s stand out track, “I See a Darkness.” Oldham writes...
Shortly thereafter, he persuaded the Faculty to adopt cryptic changes to admissions policy which reduced the percentage of Jewish freshmen at Harvard from 27.6 percent in 1925 to less than 15 percent when he retired in 1933, according to Jerome Karabel’s scathingly comprehensive “The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton...
...part of a “This Weekend’s Parties” module on the my.harvard framework, including themes, locations, and other information relating to each of the subsidized events. Such a solution would go far in ending the days of frantic cell phone calls and cryptic, first-year-esque intelligence reports of “There’s something in Kirkland” or “I think there might be a party in the Quad.”Further, the distinction between ordinary and “super” parties will lead...