Word: gras
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday, the commencement of Lent, which means 40 days of penitence, blurred bibulously by last week in preponderantly Roman Catholic Louisiana, where the excesses were so fulsome, the wassail so all embracing, that the effect upon a paragrapher who participated was the loss of the ability to construct a straight sentence, or so it feels...
...group of English Department professors invited Pales to Harvard as part of the Morris Gras Poetry Fund a University endowment Former guests of the fund have been poets Robert Frost and I.S Eliot...
Reversibility is crucial. One wants to be native only for a time. The true holiday requires metamorphosis, but, even more important, return to normality. Return is what distinguishes excursion from exile. If the change of persona becomes irreversible-if the Mardi Gras mask becomes permanently, grotesquely stuck-holiday turns to horror. One must be able to go home...
...expect it to be a colorful, special situation--a little like going to Mardi Gras in New Orleans," says Dudley Herschbach, who with his wife will act as the group's special liaisons between Harvard and Hong Kong...
...food critic, the word tasting summons delectable images of cheese and bread, foie gras and caviar, chocolate and wine-the usual subjects of such comparative evaluations. But at a 90-minute tasting conducted by Dr. Linda M. Bartoshuk in her laboratory at the Yale-affiliated John B. Pierce Foundation, the only samples I was offered were tepid, clear chemical solutions. They were washed over my tongue or used as a mouth rinse as I leaned over a sink or a funnel hooked up to a waste pail...