Word: dinfully
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Megan Cameron is sprawled across a futon and Thea Daniels leans forward in a chair, both blondes talking above the din of their roommates and each other...
...then lightheartedly enumerates his failures at Harvard, among them an unsuccessful bid for the Undergraduate Council presidency, a failed Class Marshal election, a turned down Rockefeller grant application, zero job offers and rejection from numerous parties and women. Is that all? Not even close. The Din and Tonics denied him a spot five times, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals rejected him four times and last year the judges of the annual Miss Harvard pageant refused Maats the sparkling crown and velvet sash—for the second year in a row. “I have no qualms about being publicly...
...ambassador.” Where his voice is concerned, Hunter respects the notion of different strokes for different folks. “There’s no such thing as a bad singer, just bad for that genre,” he says of his five rejections from the Din and Tonics. “Just because my voice is scratchy and out of tune doesn’t mean it’s bad. It just means I’m singing for the wrong audience...
...made in Washington more than a generation ago. In 1972, the Office of Noise Abatement and Control (ONAC) was created to identify sources of noise and combat them. But in 1981, Congress and the Reagan Administration eliminated ONAC funding, removing one federal blanket that had been thrown over the din...
Living in a city, you learn to filter out background noise. There’s a constant din of cars passing, doors closing, planes passing, computers humming. We dorm dwellers are especially adept at tuning it out. Richard Yates has a great passage about the sound of the city in a story called “Oh, Joseph, I’m So Tired.” He writes that all the “little sounds add up and come together in a kind of hum. But it’s so faint—so very, very faint?...