Word: enfoldment
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Vast is really the most appropriate word. The only way I was able to start to comprehend the University was through my reporting for The Crimson. One of the smartest things I did first semester was cling for dear life to that Crimson comp. Not only did The Crimson enfold me in its 125-year tradition and tight-knit community, it taught me to break down the University's hugeness and address each part...
...cheerfully bewildered and wandering around in a "yellow Van Halen promotional T-shirt." One day, as he's cooking spaghetti, his life suddenly falls through a rabbit hole of sorts. Spooky strangers call up with cryptic messages, women named Nutmeg and Malta enfold him in weird schemes, his wife disappears, and another woman appears in her clothes and in his bed. Reality plays like a TV program--but one showing on a channel Toru doesn...
...with Roberta. This new life takes the chill out of her bones. But it also contains relentless poverty, intermittent abuse, the constant threat of self-destruction. These people can never escape whatever desperate moment they are caught in, never know the luxury of foresight. It is hard watching fate enfold them. But it is also a bracing experience not easily shaken...
...finally it was agreed they all would stand to talk, sit to sign, stand again. Clinton was to act as stage manager. He would reach for the hand of Rabin at the crucial moment, turn next to shake the hand of Arafat, then step back half a pace and enfold the two in a wide and gentle extension of his arms with the expectation that the weight of history would bring their two hands together. It did. First Arafat reached out, then after what seemed like endless minutes, Rabin responded. Simple, shattering...
Heading home, the seminar students look retooled, retuned, relaxed. Their arms enfold three-ring binders full of freshly surfaced data. They are carrying copies of The Pinstripe Gourmet, or Think Smart, Move Fast, or even How to Make It Big as a Consultant. At the airport newsstand a magazine cover line catches the eye: MANAGEMENT SECRETS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT. Now there was a role model for the ages, a boss who could communicate in the "I win, you lose" mode and get away with it. A guy who conquered Iran, no less...