Word: glimmered
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...being "fooled" by electronic technology into (unconsciously) thinking that the victims of famine are right next door and might someday reciprocate. But that doesn't diminish the act. Our capacity to thus distort biological purpose, to prevail over our selfish heritage, is a deep source of hope and a glimmer of true goodness...
...Crimson editorial staff really managed to outdo itself on Monday, September 23 ("Presidential Race Offers No Choice"). Without so much as a glimmer of dissent, in its staff editorial it unanimously and unilaterally rejected the ideas of the Republican Party while complaining that Bill Clinton is insufficiently left-wing, and then amazingly lobbed the following stone at Bob Dole: "Certainly he has no new ideas. And the ones he has dredged up from the past are absurd...
Like an unpredicted glimmer of midwinter sunshine, cheerfulness keeps breaking into this tale of Celtic woe. McCourt's set piece accounts of his First Communion and his adventures as a post-office messenger, for example, are riotously funny. Plus Angela's Ashes has a cheerful ending. At 19, Frank leaves home for America, where jobs now are easier to find. Good cess to the luck that brought him through...
...course, much to the disillusionment of some students who had seen a glimmer of hope for the Core Curriculum, this class, like others during this term, will be lotteried...
While the first act of "Ordinary People" is depressing, the second act builds the audience's spirits back up, so that by the end a glimmer of hope has actually broken through Conrad's darkness. Unlike his friend Karen, Conrad manages to survive. He sings that he has learned from the people he has met and there are "A lot of things I'd like to change, but I'll take what I can get." In the program, director Victor Chiu asks the audience to remember this as the musical's message: "This Hope. Have faith in it. Take...