Word: findings
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...still needs to have recourse to avenues of escape from realityphysical pleasure; a fantasy about writing an opera on the poet Byron and his mistress Teresa; a longing for a former, more heroic self; anger and outrage. But the novel traces the process whereby he is able to find his own way of expiating his abuse of power and his guilt at being useless to his daughter and thereby is able to confront reality...
...first glance, Uncommon Children could well be the title of a play depicting the journey of a few extraordinary young men and women through adolescence to their admission at Harvard College. But you won't find the Crimson Key society performing variations at information sessions. In fact, Uncommon Children comes from a combination of the titles of two plays --Uncommon Women and Others by Wendy Wasserstein and Moonchildren by Michael Weller--produced together in the Leverett Old Library though December...
...betrothed instead to a much, much older man, Admiral of the Queen's Navy, Sir Joseph Porter. The Captain himself is in love with dear little Buttercup, but cannot marry her because she is a poorly Bumboat woman, of a lower class than he. So, these characters try to find love and belonging amid a chorus of grinning, gallivanting sailors, brightly dressed sisters, cousins and aunts, not to mention the rolling high seas. Actually, the calm flat waters of port, because, curiously enough, the good ship Pinafore never seems to leave harbour...
...place in the U.S. Senate, but he or she may win a MacArthur Prize or be invited to Sweden for a hefty award down the line. Many of you may be recoiling in disgust, but if a good philosophical conversation interests you and you can't find the right conversation partner, then you know what sort of intellectual I mean is missing from Harvard...
...does poor white children. "Low-income black kids are more likely than poor white kids to attend isolated inner-city schools and visit public libraries without Internet access, or even computers," says White. Given the Internet's famously democratic roots, it seems doubly unfair that so many people find its tools just out of reach...