Word: diem
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...Toys ‘R’ Us. Then, we ran through the sprinkler at our local park. A few hours later I officially turned 20. While I couldn’t stop time or even delay it, at least I could enjoy the moment for a while: carpe diem. On June 21, I was shocked to learn that longtime Technical Director of College Theatre, Alan Symonds ’69, had passed away. I considered him both a friend and a mentor. Thus, his death deeply shook me; it reminded me of opportunities missed, of relentless time. When...
...match. As flames engulfed his body, he made not a single cry nor moved a muscle. "Oh my God," cried a Western observer, "oh my God." In a will written "before closing my eyes to Buddha," Quang Duc said: "I have the honor of presenting my words to President Diem, asking him to be kind and tolerant toward his people and to enforce a policy of religious equality." Budapest, Hungary Nov. 5, 1956 It began like a carnival day. Thousands of people thronged Budapest's old cobblestoned streets wearing red, white and green boutonnieres, tossing red, white and green ribbons...
...interviews. You might give back by helping recruit the best talent for Harvard. The biggest problem with your intentions is the fact that they are just that, intentions. Your efforts are being delayed like a Continental Airlines flight. Do you think that Horace advised everyone “Carpe Diem!” for nothing? The last approach is the best of all approaches. It’s the Johnnie Walker Blue Label of approaches, or the pocket rockets, Ace-10-10 on the flop, and another Ace on the turn. In any case, this approach involves your being active...
...says Streep, laughing to herself. “It’s bravado directing.” Of course, some themes intentionally make the final cut of “A Prairie Home Companion.” A persistent carpe-diem message pervades the film; characters learn not to focus on the past—“there is no silence in radio,” one points out—and that in the future lingers uncertainly. At the same time, the audience sympathizes with the outdated variety show, and its closing, the end of an era, implies...
Right-wing tyrants have a history of playing us for suckers: South Viet Nam's Diem, the Shah of Iran and Chile's Augusto Pinochet. Now add Ferdinand Marcos. The repressive rule of these leaders, with their human-rights violations, economic inequality and police-state justice, invariably creates armed internal opposition. We should drop President Marcos like a hot potato. Gary Fox Oxford, Ohio...