Word: grass
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...down their shower drains. “The introductory meeting looked like an abbreviated European Union of reluctant janitors. A Scottish piano virtuoso, two Irishmen, half a dozen girls from Eastern Europe who were either short and stout like potato balls or tall and thin like dune grass on the Baltic,” McDonell writes...
...second year researching for “Imperial,” he was already determined “to return year after year, deepening friendships, exploring sandscapes and ruthlessly studying people’s lives until Imperial became as shockingly bright in my mind as the bands of sunny grass between the aisles of a palm-orchard.” For the next eight years, Vollmann completed “Imperial” doing precisely that. His interests are equally topological and sociological: returns to Imperial not just to research the exact condition of the New River, but to talk...
...Gingo, director of facilities maintenance and operations for the FAS Office of Physical Resources, said the machine is actually a "ground aerator," which "pulls out little plugs of dirt" in order to allow air and water to get to the roots of the grass. The clumps will break down and be reabsorbed into the lawn in short time, he said...
...mail list. Attendees proposed different ways to involve more of Harvard’s queer community in the organization. While Garland and Chan also discussed the possibility of continuing to make decisions through weekly meetings of the committee chairs, they spent the bulk of their time advocating their more grass roots and committee-focused option—and in an informal poll after the meeting, those in attendance showed their tentative support for their plan. But despite the nearly unanimous support for structural changes, more controversial issues were raised. Some voiced their concerns that certain groups, particularly Queer women...
...will power. And in the spring, they’ll offer perverts a 360 experience of Primal Scream… The hippies can still sprawl across the lawn or rub up against a tree, but now all those people who wouldn’t otherwise plop down on the grass are appreciating the great outdoors. Even if the new chairs give only the illusion of a cohesive community, that’s better than a barren landscape of rush-in and rush-out. The naysayers among us critique the chairs as tacky carnival props that cheapen the prestige of Harvard...