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Outside Gate 42 at Dulles airport last week, my emotions yo-yoed from giddy excitement to that other, dread traveler's feeling, deja vu. Though the sign under Legend Airline's Flight 3 said ON TIME, the gate agents kept announcing delay after delay because of bad weather. Here we go again, I thought; just another airline...
...awkward moments while walking into Lamont Library have always been a bittersweet emotional ballet, full of both anticipation and dread. The clumsy balancing of bookbag and laptop case, the fumbling for ID and the uncomfortable eye contact with the book checker are rites of passage, destined to be replayed throughout the ages. In recent times, however, those already "broken in" may have found a new social obstacle: the umbrella...
Relations between the two men skid into a series of affronts, real or perceived, while Breege, Brennan's younger sister, looks on with mounting dread. She loves her brother but also feels, in spite of herself, drawn to the stranger. When Brennan senses her interest, he strikes her and accuses her of siding with the enemy...
...Currier House Master William A. Graham Jr., a professor of religion and Islamic studies, says the dread associated with the Quad has intensified in the past five to eight years...
Just don't take any course where they make you read Beowulf," Woody Allen advised Diane Keaton in Annie Hall (1977). The throwaway line elicited laughs from Allen's core audience of college grads, especially the one-time English majors among them who had learned to dread--if not actually read--what they had heard was a grim Anglo-Saxon epic filled with odd names and a lot of gory hewing and hacking...