Word: flit
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...They flit across our TV screens, these appalling images of devastation. We choke up a bit, perhaps send a donation to an appropriate charity, then go back to our lives. Because New Orleans is in America, and because it became a political embarrassment as well as a human disaster, Katrina got more sustained attention. But what of other natural catastrophes, like the tsunami in Indonesia? Or the Iranian city of Bam, which, on Dec. 26, 2003 - exactly a year before the Indonesian tsunami - was leveled by an earthquake. Of the 100,000 inhabitants, 30,000 died. The rest were left...
...impacts other valuable programs such as study abroad and senior thesis tutorials. And open admission to these tutorials will cause class sizes to bloat, destroying the intimacy and attention that tutorials are meant to provide. None of these are tradeoffs warranted by saddling students with an extra semester to flit about, lost in an unstructured, pre-concentration Harvard curriculum. In the spirit of combating some of these problems, the Faculty also passed a provision requiring first semester sophomores to meet with departmental advisors. We hope the Faculty takes an extra step in this direction and require freshmen to declare...
...first chapter, Marian is faced with an exciting prospect—the possibility of friendship with another outcast of the Norton School, Val Boyd. Val’s parents flit about the world while leaving Val with a caretaker in the Village, and so she, like Marian, feels fatherless. Val is also ostracized at Norton, because she leaves school early each day and all the other girls know that she visits a psychoanalyst in the afternoons. To them, she seems neurotic and strange...
...easy back in the States - except that his girl friend has joined the WACs, grandpa is shooting rivets onto a battleship and mom is farming harder than Renee Zellweger in "Cold Mountain." And a couple of SNAFUs, including "Private SNAFU vs. Malaria Mike" (Jones, March 44), revived Geisel's Flit villain, the mosquito, to advise soldiers in the South Pacific to keep their beds netted and pants up. (SNAFU's pulchritudinous ass is a frequent target for enemy dive bombers...
...curious kid in me still loves the Zimkowitz box score, the Flit ads, Private SNAFU's adventures with Axis pinup girls and the terrifying, hilarious Dr. T. in his do-mi-do duds. Thanks, Ted Geisel - however your name is pronounced - for appealing to my better nature, and my true...