Word: firming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...With the last two narrators, the novel spins out of Budnitz's previously firm control. The style changes from short sentences to descriptive passages, while snippets of modern existence attempt to address all the moral and emotional issues Budnitz has introduced. To prevent the rich symbolism of Ilana's account in the old country from laying waste, Budnitz reintroduces the egg as the unifying concept for the novel. When Ilana dies, the egg loses its sheen, and the novel comes to a halting...
Examining the small font under the very last photograph in the folder, I noticed the name "Cipriani Kremer Design," an elite Boston advertising firm. Undoubtedly a fancy copy-writing firm supplied the text, which is predictably self-aggrandizing. From my experience working in the Internet design industry, I can estimate that the professional design, photography and copy-writing services for a project of this size would cost tens of thousands of dollars. Add the time library administrators spent on the project, and the costs of printing, delivering, and stuffing each of the 6,000-plus folders with 17 separate pamphlets...
What was really communicated when the library sent undergraduates the Rolls Royce of library guides? That when Harvard has something to say to undergraduates, it hires an advertising firm to do it. Either the library has completely missed the point about what students need, or we have been caught up in the larger politics of fundraising. In the former case, the library need only approach its many student librarians with a few well designed questions, and next time students might receive a guide of real value (for a tenth of the project cost...
Abramian's current employer is Security Systems Incorporated (SSI)--the same firm to which Harvard has begun to outsource its security operations. It's an irony Abramian appreciates...
While the 50-year-old immigrant was represented by two lawyers who had never handled an anti-discrimination case before, Harvard hired the venerable Boston law firm Ropes & Gray to assist in their defense...