Word: fittingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...close to defending Sabbath. He only hopes to render the man--his "primal emotions and indecent language and careful, complex sentences"--in such high relief that, try as we might, we cannot despise him. When Sabbath is booted out of his puppetry professorship at a local college, Roth sees fit to include, as a foot-note, a lengthy transcript of the offending teacher-student phone sex episode. This is only Roth the provacateur, daring us to be offended. Sadly, it's gratuitous, lurid instead of daring...
According to The Crimson's phone poll of 340 Harvard students, 37 percent said they had used some nicotine-containing product within the past year. Roughly three quarters of those who had used nicotine fit into the category of the occasional smoker, someone who indulges in one or two cigarettes on weekends or a few cigars each year to celebrate special occasions. The remaining quarter of nicotine users are regular smokers, those who smoke more than 10 cigarettes a week...
...disgraceful attendance records of some members. One further recommendation, that the position of "Director of Phillips Brooks House" be eliminated from the description of the new "Assistant Dean for Public Service"--given that there already existed a Director of PBH and that the new Assistant Dean might not see fit to eliminate that position--was also denied...
...opting for a safer, solid-fuel rocket had its drawbacks too; a rocket of this type small enough to fit into the shuttle's cargo bay would not yield enough power to thrust Galileo into a direct flight to Jupiter. "It took the project a while to invent a new way for Galileo to get to Jupiter," says J.P.L. director Edward Stone, "but there was a sense of 'It can be done...
ELISA IZQUIERDO LIKED TO DANCE, WHICH IS ALMOST TOO perfect. Fairy tales, especially those featuring princesses, often include dancing, although perhaps not Elisa's favorite merengue. Fairy-tale princesses are born humble. Elisa fit that bill: she was conceived in a homeless shelter in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn and born addicted to crack. That Elisa nevertheless had a special, enchanted aura is something the whole city of New York now knows. "Radiant," says one of her preschool teachers, remembering a brilliant smile and flashing black eyes. "People loved her," adds another. "Everybody loved her." And, unlikely...