Word: ets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pagan god Lupercus, who was associated with "joy, abundance and sexual freedom." Joy, abundance and sexual freedom sound a lot more entertaining to me than the current, more greeting-card-driven ritual, but then I'm not Roman Catholic and may be missing out on religious significance et cetera...
Harvard always claims that grades are secondary to learning. While that may be true in one sense, what Mansfield et al. fail to understand is that students will not take the chance to learn something new if they know they could do the work and still get hammered by a bad grade. People can say "grades don't matter" all they want to, but we all know that's not true if you want to do something after graduation...
...amalgam of historic regions -- a microcosm of a world of peoples rather than of nations. A regionalist finds it much easier to develop true internationalism than a nationalist, and this is one reason why both men were at ease as head of a global organization, speaking urbi et orbi -- to the city and to the world...
Beethoven: The Nine Symphonies (Archiv). What did Ludwig van Beethoven's symphonies sound like in Beethoven's day? John Eliot Gardiner and his Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique try to show us by using gut-stringed fiddles, valveless horns and other period instruments, and by adopting brisk tempos. To listen to this electrifying set is to rediscover these revolutionary compositions in all their terror and wonder...
...many, for that matter, 365 days ago thought that 265 days ago the Patriots would still have "Massachusetts" on their calling cards? Weren't St. Louis, Hartford, et al. ready to take these so many orphans into shelter...