Word: grandeur
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Light at Sandover, an epic poem stretching over three volumes and chronicling extended conversations with the illustrious dead, whom Merrill summoned by Ouija board. He has gone on to become one of them, leaving behind the paradoxical legacy of a man who loved both understatement and sumptuosity, nicety and grandeur. In the end, his contradictions were expansive. Collectively the poems declare, Here's a world, and it's a good...
While the five rookies may not inspire the same visions of grandeur on the mats as Michigan's Feb Five once did on the basketball court, they are an encouraging sign for Harvard's rebuilding wrestling program...
...breaking the embarrassing silence. And like most attempts at humor, it contained an element of truth. Harvard students do live in their own world--for better or for worse. It's a world where students wear blazers to class, "freshman" are "first-years" and the sports teams' visions of grandeur stop at the Pennsylvania border...
...Travels with Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and on the Streets, Lars Eighner recounts his own adventures in the modern wild West. However, unlike his literary predecessors who lovingly detailed the majesty of the Rockies or the solemn grandeur of the California sequoias, Eighner chooses a much different subject. Instead of landscapes and flora, he describes the nooks and crannies of the Texan welfare system and the urban beast known as Los Angeles. From the perspective of a homeless man wandering across the Arizona desert, Eighner gives an update on life in today's real frontier, the streets...
...lost Harvard this summer. One day while walking down Quincy St., I looked up and realized, "Hey, this place isn't all it's cracked up to be." For three years I have walked around feeling like an alien here and being awestruck by the architecture and grandeur of this place. I've been intrigued by the little old men who walk around here dressed like they're going out for a day in the country with their straw hats and seersucker suits. You know the ones I'm talking about. They often have moustaches, little rimless glasses and carry...