Word: darknesse
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“My characters are galley slaves,” Vladimir Nabokov told the Paris Review in 1967—and he was telling the truth. It isn’t difficult to imagine any one of his memorable protagonists as helpless prisoners, each chained to his oar on...
Stephen Pound, the Labour MP from Ealing North, will advocate caliginosity (dimness, darkness) on the floor of Parliament. "I shall be drawing the Prime Minister's attention in a fairly obscure and abstruse way to the word: 'Amid the global fiscal turmoil, we sought illumination but found only caliginosity.' " The...
It's that type of confidence that serves as our light in the climatic darkness, living proof that hope hasn't vanished. You need that comfort when you're standing on a rocky hilltop in Greenland, watching the ice disappear. As Jakobshavn gives way to the fjord, a stadium-size...
"Darkness had descended on this land," Gates said. "Merchants of chaos were gaining strength. Death was commonplace. Slowly but inexorably, the tide began to turn. Our enemies took a fearsome beating they will not soon forget."
The entire class of 2012 and Adams House residents were stranded Saturday night after a power outage caused by an electrical fire at the Plympton Street dormitory left students unable to return to their rooms. Students spent the night in Quincy House, the Science Center, and on cots in the...