Word: grasping
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Harvard will take on the Bears at 12 p.m. on Saturday. With a strong showing, the Crimson could establish a firm grasp on the Rolfe Division title. With Dartmouth and Yale also playing a four-game series, however, it’s anyone’s guess as to who will emerge from the weekend on top. One thing is for sure, though—in Ivy League baseball, it’s never easy...
...during the past 30 years have come up through the ranks from an ordinary background. They form a modern-day monarchical court. The buildings they work in are palatial, the apartments they live in are sumptuous, and the schools they attend to reach such lofty heights are prestigious. Their grasp of the realities of the average worker can only be patchy. That inevitably results in social eruptions. Valda Lynen Vallauris, France Fair Trade for All Your capsule history of economic globalization [March 27] outlined the ebb and flow of trade among nations over the centuries. I believe international investment...
Looking back on four years of classes has forced me to draw connections, and I see now that a class on film can offer insights into human psychology, a grasp of regulatory economics can inform research proposals for environmental engineering, and in my case, a veritable course catalog of disciplines can offer insight into the relationship between social values and political decision-making. I only wish I’d realized it sooner...
...play’s reach should exceed its grasp, then director Robert Woodruff’s “Orpheus X,” at the Zero Arrow Theatre, playing through April 23, is a triumph. Told in words, music, writing, song, projected images, and one climactic, devastating silence, the operatic play is hugely ambitious and completely unique. It is, however, more interesting than it is entertaining, at times overreaching to the point of inaccessibility. Written by and starring Rinde Eckert, “Orpheus X,” an American Repertory world premiere, updates the well-known myth...
...every video goes viral. The vast majority go nowhere--YouTube hosts millions of hours of drunken parties, tearful confessions, smiling babies, sleeping cats and screen grabs from World of Warcraft, all doomed to obscurity. Nike showed a firm grasp of the form with a popular clip, an ad stealthily designed to look like amateur footage, showing soccer deity Ronaldinho putting on a pair of sneakers and then, incredibly, nailing the crossbar with a soccer ball four times in a row. Some of the successes are accidental. For a while, one of the popular movies on Google Video...