Word: depths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ordinarily, intercollegiate squash matches involve nine players from each team. However, this tournament divided the teams into only five players per squad. Because Harvard's main strength is in its depth, the tournament format favored the opposition...
...team still had to win the final relay, however, to capture the victory. Harvard took the early lead but eventually falling to Pitt's sprinting depth by only a few tenths of a second...
...simply presents the original work of some of his favorite Brazilian artists. The album draws on samba as well as psychedelic rock and '90s clubland rhythms. It's all a lot of fun, though one wishes it could, at times, be a little less lighthearted. Listeners searching for more depth should check out last year's Nova Bossa: Red Hot on Verve, a collection of Brazilian pop drawn mostly from the '50s and '60s. It's a treat of an album--and moving to boot...
...abuse the confidence of others who trust them, Dante possessed an encyclopedic knowledge and an unforgiving eye. He consigned history's fraudulent figures, including those who gave bad counsel or who spread scandal, to various folds in his eighth circle of hell. The only lower and more hideously painful depth was the ninth circle, the place Dante reserved for those who went beyond personal betrayal into public treachery...
Complex societies do not easily find leaders to follow, even causes to unite behind. If Ronald Reagan was our last widely beloved President, you'd hardly know it from the depth of antipathy he provoked in 40% of the population. The good war--the universally endorsed war--is a half-century behind us. Entertainers? Not a chance. Our tastes are too motley, our options too many. And the entertainer's natural vanity is implicit in his choice of a career...