Word: finding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...always running away from whatever you’re defined as.”Isn’t this, to some degree, what we all do? We come in as freshman, undefined and searching for a passion to anchor us. We attach to that hook when we find it—the IOP, the Literature department, The Crimson—and we form our identities within and around it. But as soon as we become it, we fight desperately not to pigeonholed by it. I don’t mean to chalk everything Ehrlich did up to avoiding his burger...
...real book that this piece of technology could never capture.Real books have a physical presence that we have to hold and with which we sometimes grapple or “quarrel.” They have a distinctive smell, and picking an old book off the shelf, you can find notes and underlinings from when you first read it. As your understanding of literature and the world grows, your books mature with you. Yes, the Kindle has an auto-scroll feature, but it’s not going to help the words leap off the page. If anything, they just...
...movies are documentaries, he felt this material was more suited to a feature film. “Because it’s based on a real-world story, because many of the characters are still alive, and because many of these issues are so important, we had to find a way to tell the inspiring and dramatically compelling truth, and to root it in authenticity,” Haney says. “So that the reaction would be almost visceral, so that you would feel it more than think about it.”To this end, Haney cast...
...handle the truth? In their debut show, “The Truth,” Freestyle Electronica plans to find out. Performing at the Queen’s Head tomorrow at 4 p.m., three Pforzheimer musicians will join forces to create a fresh new sound in the media of both rap and electronica. Emanuel Beica ’11, Nathan C.M. Leiby ’10, and Lev A. Shaket ’10 will use their music to test the audience’s capacity to hear “the truth” about politics and war, among...
...when there are so many worse things going on in the world. [The play] bashes you over the head with its moral, but its process of doing so gives you a lot of options to interpret what you are seeing,” Benowitz adds. “You find yourself rooting for the incestuous couple in the end. That [might] make you feel a little uncomfortable, but I think it will make you come out with the sense that morality or goodness has to be judged on a case-to-case basis.” —Staff...