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...count myself, unabashedly, among the cognoscenti when it comes to food. I was born and raised in Singapore, where a staggering variety of regional and international cuisines steadily court the diner’s attentions; where, already sated with a large lunch, people ravenously discuss what they will devour for dinner that same day; where taxi drivers are polled regularly by newspapers on the best and most elusive hawker stalls island-wide...
...Lewis, who was once smitten by it, asked, is it the Prince or the Poem? Is it the fierce deliberation of one man’s mind that gives it its peculiar flavor, its unmatched intensity, and its startling command of the intellect of the great intellects who devour it? Or is it the beauty of its poetry that seems to penetrate each neuron of the brain...
...seen the huge fucking possum that wanders around Mount Auburn Street, Plympton Street, and has been spotted as far afield as Mather, you’re not alone. That thing is huge and fucking scary. Gossip Guy’s fears that it would attack and devour a pre-frosh were thankfully unfounded, though despite expensive hypnotherapy, his recurring stress dream in which the possum crushes the Lowell belltower remains...
Alas, the food is no better than the service. Customers seeking to experience Southern comfort food may devour tasty collard greens whose bitter aftertaste sadly recalls the disappointments of the night before. Unfortunately, it’s all downhill from there. The bread pudding is certainly creamy—but should bread pudding really be creamy? Tepid Eggs Florentine fester atop an extinguished flame, providing a daunting challenge to those who may still feel queasy. And, at last reckoning, it did appear that Florence was in Italy. The appearance of Eggs Florentine at the buffet can thus only be explained...
...Americas University will have a particularly broad audience. An incredibly detailed and deeply researched look at the players and issues of the last 70 years of Harvard history, the book will certainly appeal to the core of Harvard insider-elites, institutional historians and over-eager student journalists who hungrily devour every line of copy or print that references fair Harvard. The authors are perfect for this audience; he is Spector Professor of History at Brandeis, while she is a Harvard insider in the flesh, a former associate dean for academic affairs at Harvards Faculty of Arts and Sciences...