Word: fancifulism
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College days can be a time for fanciful play and practical jokes--as both The Crimson and our rival the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine--can both attest. Thus it came as no surprise when Lampoon editor...
The most anticipated part of the evening was the world premiere of Donald Martino's Romanza, written especially for Schulte for this concert. The work, for solo violin, opened with extreme intervallic explorations that lead to variations that increase in intensity. As the composer wrote in the program notes, "The...
At this point, more Americans are going to be dubious about a President Gore than a President Bush because they're inclined to feel that Gore will be installed by a bunch of folks in black robes and by a counting standard that is purely subjective, even fanciful.
It astonishes me to turn on the tube and see a lawyer on the Bush team accusing Gore of bringing lawsuits until he gets the result he wants. What an accusation! This is at a time when Bush has just taken a state-election dispute to the U.S. Supreme Court...
DIED. LARS-ERIK NELSON, 59, audacious columnist for the New York Daily News for nearly two decades, who also worked for the New York Review of Books, Reuters and Newsday; of an apparent stroke; in Washington. Nelson was an old-school journalist who never missed a deadline, but he had...