Word: fallen
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...generation younger and simply happy to pay respects. The group is strictly culture-war neutral. Notes Patriot Guard California state ride captain David (Scooter) Bolton: "Nobody cares if [a rider is] gay or not. It's not a meet-and-greet-and-date organization. It's to honor fallen heroes...
...complicit in the production of inauthentic chick lit, that regrettably pervasive genre of packaged pop culture easily digested by teenage girls. We encourage and even inspire it. Harvard, I am most distressed to recognize, is at risk of becoming a bit like chick lit itself. The ivory tower has fallen; in its place we have erected a shopping mall...
...said that the ivory tower has fallen. This is no secret in the world at large, where “The Da Vinci Code” tops bestseller lists and serves as both the primary impetus for, and evidence in, ‘theological debates’ among the enlightened masses. In a culture where a talk show host’s approval immortalizes novels, where the most well-known humanitarian is a rock star, and where movie stars can popularize a religion created by a science fiction novelist, we cannot expect much in the way of literary and intellectual...
...distinction, however, becomes a point of shame when we fail to deserve the elitism which we so naturally affect and when we instead spout vulgarities from a pedestal. Harvard’s most recent and feted cultural contribution is chick lit written by an aspiring investment banker. We have fallen a long way from T.S. Eliot, and we should be ashamed...
Providence, RI—The eighth-seeded Harvard water polo team finished its season in eighth place out of the eight teams at the Eastern Championships in Providence, R.I., falling to sixth-seeded Maryland, 4-3, in the seventh-place game on Sunday morning.The previous day, the Crimson had fallen to top-ranked Hartwick, 13-2, and fourth-seeded Indiana, 7-6.Last year, the Crimson finished fifth at Easterns. “This is definitely the toughest pool of teams that I have seen at Easterns in all my four years,” said captain and driver Arin Keyser...