Word: englandisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
From the moment we learn that Austerlitz was evacuated to England, the Holocaust haunts almost every page of the novel, but the novel never lapses into hysteria. This is partly attributable to Sebald’s deliberate prose style—described by critic James Wood as “densely agitated”—which renders even the most psychologically disordered states with forensic lucidity: “reason was powerless against the sense of rejection and annihilation which I had always suppressed, and which was now breaking through the walls of its confinement...
...Harvard study, appearing today in the New England Journal of Medicine, estimates the cost-effectiveness of a mass immunization program and concludes that vaccination makes sense for most adults...
Critics, including a minority of state health officials, Ralph Nader’s Health Research Group, The New York Times, and health officials and medical journals in England, France and Canada, have disputed government estimates of the likelihood of an epidemic, its probable severity and the effectiveness of the vaccine itself...
Luckily, most of what we have seen of this illness has been reassuring. Most people have had relatively short and uneventful courses of illness, usually lasting about 4 to 7 days. New England has had a relatively low incidence of illness compared to the rest of the country—a finding that some are attributing to our higher incidence in the spring possibly inducing some low-level immunity in our community. Older people have been similarly less affected, possibly because of their immunological “memory” of earlier exposures...
...funny, really cute. It’s all about love and magic,” says stage director Davida Fernandez-Barkan ’11. “I think it’s a really beautiful show.” Though the show was originally conceived in Victorian England, this particular production’s styling and costume will be decidedly more Elizabethan. “Shows get taken to the present a lot, and I thought it would be fun to take a show back.” Originally, the plan was to set the production in medieval...