Word: followers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...compete with the houses to the detriment of College social life is also ridiculous. Why should social life be limited to the houses? The influence of the restaurants, bars and nightclubs of Cambridge and Boston which draw students away from the houses should then also be reduced, if you follow the staff's silly logic. And no one is being dragged to a final club at gunpoint; if you disapprove of them, you don't have to spend time in them...
...toward making TLC Beatrice a publicly traded firm. When, and if, she does sell equity on the stock market, Lewis will finally be positioned to complete the deal cycle her husband initiated and to cash out big time. Says she: "I guess you can say I didn't exactly follow in my husband's footsteps." No, but she has done a good job of filling his shoes...
...playing Bette Midler's 1989 hit Wind Beneath My Wings to his Sunday school class--three 11-year-old boys and one girl. "Did I ever tell you you're my hero?" Midler sings. Fintel directs his four charges to chapter 12 of Genesis, where God tells Abraham, follow me and I will bless you and "make of you a great nation." Says Fintel: "To me, Abraham is the person, and God is the wind." It is a lovely image, and as Fintel teaches it, Genesis seems a lovely book. Since he has followed God's instruction, Fintel explains, "Abraham...
...produce a book in which he cast doubts on Simpson's innocence. He has betrayed a friend, and also a client, since he was part of Simpson's defense team. Whatever you think of that friend and client, Kardashian's was not a noble act. Many of those who follow the case have denounced him, and he is under investigation by the California Bar Association. Score another one for O.J.-related venality...
...Odyssey starts out speedily: "Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns/ driven time and again off course, once he had plundered/ the hallowed halls of Troy." That man, of course, is Odysseus, the epic hero of all that is to follow, and in calling him "the man of twists and turns" Fagles signals his commitment to economical, concrete descriptions. Fitzgerald's translation introduces Odysseus as "that man skilled in all ways of contending." Some readers may prefer Fitzgerald's rendering, of course, but the contrast shows clearly the straightforward method Fagles pursues...