Word: forkful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Barbara Bel Geddes, matriarch of Dallas' Ewing clan, enters the front door at South Fork after a hard day of trying to hold her troubled TV family together. An uninvited guest is waiting for her in the living room. "Who are you?" demands Bel Geddes. "Why, I'm Miss Ellie," replies Donna Reed. A troubled look comes over Bel Geddes' face as the music swells to a cliff-hanger close. "But," she protests, "I'm Miss Ellie...
...want to let it go. It wasn’t a fear of Harvard that was holding me back, but an unwillingness to give up my options elsewhere. Deciding among the four prongs of my future suddenly seemed less romantic than Frost’s classic fork in the road...
...path continues to fork and also to twist and climb...
...faithful reconstruction of a pre-Revolutionary crane, this Rube Goldberg device consists of an upright 30-ft. ash sapling, a block and tackle suspended from a fork at its apex, yards of thick manila rope woven through an assortment of pulleys and a stout ashwood capstan. Today it will raise the final gable, a 20-ft.-long triangle of beams on which roof boards will later rest. Babcock casually knots the free end of the rope around the beams, then signals his crew of four. Under their weight, the groaning capstan turns. The rope creaks. The beams refuse to budge...
...premier classes of the undergraduate Harvard education, will face a fork in the road this fall when Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein ’61 ends his 21-year stint atop the course. Handing the reins to Freed Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw, the economics department has chosen the correct path for the course, regardless of the gripes of liberal opponents. Ec 10 undoubtedly presents a conservative view of the world to its many students, but it is a classical economic approach. Thus, Mankiw’s intention to inherit the course and teach it with...