Word: fathoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will never know why. Yet who can ever fathom the evil that men do. We stand disbelieving before genocide, when women's throats are slit with sharp palm leaves, when children's heads are smashed against tree trunks, when men are slaughtered with the crack of a hoe. These things happened every day in Cambodia for 3 1/2 terrible years, and when the world learned of it, people could only respond with dumb horror...
...simple double desks of the twins, and the pantomime rostrum of C.B. draw attention to how stark the set is--a draped dais surrounded by twenty telephones, with other furniture passim. Such an arrangement is hard to dislike and equally hard to fathom. Is it the device-crazed silliness of modern life that leads it on? Or a nihilistic take on that culture? Or a big sardonic joke free of philosophical posture...
Sweatshops are the fallen angels of capitalism--the pursuit of profit and efficiency gone astray--but they are the product of capitalism nonetheless, and as such they should shake people's unflagging faith in our economic system. The two of us struggle to fathom placing such blind faith in a system which produces enormous income disparities, divides American social and economic life along racial lines and puts a Starbucks on every affluent corner...
...completely unable to fathom why it is you bring this up considering that a) Lowell has not, at least in recent memory, been a terribly operatic house; b) the Lowell House Opera has no recent history of casting large numbers of Lowell residents; and c) the Lowell House Opera doesn't even have any recent history of casting large numbers of Harvard students, nor of using them as directors...
...magnitude of Harvard's achievement is truly difficult for many people to fathom. Aside from becoming the first victorious 16 seed in the history of the Big Dance, the Crimson also stopped a number of impressive runs by one of greatest programs in women's basketball...