Word: dreamt
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...named after Hermione's abandoned daughter from The Winter's Tale, Perdita can't reconcile the vast Outback landscape of her childhood with the transported English culture of her schooling-"all this life, all this huge unelaborated life, told her there was more on heaven and earth than was dreamt of by Mister Shakespeare." Neglected by her self-absorbed parents, Perdita befriends the family's Aboriginal servant Mary and a different education begins. Perdita learns to read "the chevron sand-lines of lizards... The ripples of departed snakes, the scroll shapes and mounds and pathways of bush tucker-all that...
Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: I once dreamt about being photographed in a watermelon helmet...
Molly Donohue, 18, thought she had dreamt the scream. It was just after 7 a.m. She had been sleeping through her alarm since 6:50 a.m. She rolled over in bed, got up, and put on a pair of jeans and shoes. Then, as she was standing in the middle of her room, she heard the scream again. It was a female voice. Very close. Maybe next door. "It was a scream, " she says, "of absolute terror. " Then, two loud thuds, like boards clapping together. Another scream. Two more thuds...
...dreamt about it. You remember the countless afternoons spent in the backyard playing out that defining moment. The moment when the spotlight shines solely on you. That singular instance where you realize that you, after the many hours of work and dedication, finally made it. And now, as your mouth is too numb to speak and the joy sets upon you, your index finger, raised high into the air, expresses all that needs to be said...“We’re number...
...Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71, professors, teaching fellows (TFs), and many of our peers have exhorted us to fill out the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) evaluations of our courses. But apparently the deluge of spam, combined with all the other incentives FAS dreamt up (including course instructors’ promising to don fairy costumes on exam day and extra points on the final) have been insufficient in motivating Harvard students to respond. As of Friday, only 50.55 percent of students had completed the evaluations. Harvard has dangled plenty of carrots in its quest...