Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...appreciate a show like the Hasty Pudding's, a grasp of the plot is merely a bonus, for its heart lies in the spectacle. Yet the writers, Greg Lau '99 and Ben Kaplan '99, nevertheless churn out a fashionably complex storyline (Go, Hasty Pudding! Don't stop giving!) filled with...
Random? Of course not. Realizing it's all thepieces of a puzzle, we grasp the stunning answer.Madonna is, in all truth, a modern-day Geisha. Sheis trapped within her corridor, without the leastprivacy, but she is free to perform...
Perhaps what America needs, Cuomo suggested, is some kind of hero, a redemptive figure who would emerge onto the American scene and bring us the solutions that seem just outside our grasp. "Moses," he mused, "maybe if Moses came back...even Alan Simpson here wouldn't argue with Moses...
Cuomo cautioned that we cannot expect heroes to arise on their own. But that doesn't mean that heroism lies beyond our grasp. It simply means that we should be willing NOT to be heroes, to acknowledge that our most exalted role might lie, instead, in softening the ground so that future heroes will have a place to grow. When they hear that Cuomo came to Harvard to speak about "the liberal agenda," too many people probably assumed that they had heard it all before, and that if it was all old news, who needed it? Those people, no matter...
...ball with 19.2 seconds to go. Monti started a drive with about nine seconds on the clock, penetrated up the left side of the lane and hoisted a scoop shot, but it rolled off the back of the rim. The rebound barely escaped Russell's grasp...