Word: gaspingly
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...knows? That day could come this October. If everything goes right--if Nomar comes back with a vengeance, Cone and Saberhagen produce one brilliant last gasp and Everett remains only moderately disgruntled--then I could be breaking out the champagne along with a million other Bostonians on Yawkey Way in the biggest party this city has ever seen...
...labels hadn't yet figured out how to fully control and stifle with accountants. But at the same time the Brill Building-type songwriters for hire, which included some of the finest pop-music talent America ever produced, were still cranking out songs by the yard in a last-gasp bid for teen immortality. The time was ripe for a naïve and yet monstruously successful hybrid, and Bob Rafelson knew...
...with the present population of the College. We're not just female and Jewish--we're even further from the traditional Crimson WASP than that. With whom at the College would alumni specifically seek connection, anyway? Their houses have been randomized, their final clubs rejected and their fellow Harvardians (gasp) diversified. A few vestiges of the Old Boys' Club still prosper, thank goodness, but even those are fading fast. (The Fly Club now includes four--four--minorities...
Still, does downscaling the resident tutorial system strike a fatal blow to the famed House system and risk turning our Houses into, gasp, plain old dorms? Certainly not. While resident tutors do play role in broadening the pool of people with whom students can interact and learn, plenty of other options exist to make this happen. The Houses' ailing senior common room system has the most potential to infuse the Houses with scholars. Yet in its current state, it too has a long...
...important and obvious distinction between condemning a person's words and punishing that person for saying them. One of the bedrock principles of democracy is that people have the right to say what they think, even if other people don't like it. Even if it is--gasp--politically incorrect. In our effort to make everybody think nice things about everybody else, we often forget the paramount importance of allowing people to voice opinions that offend us. The fact that we do so is perhaps the greatest threat to free speech in America today. This threat is far more pernicious...