Word: grayness
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...answer feminist” TF.These TFs are usually women and usually in the humanities, and their distinguishing feature, it seems, is their ability to wear linen at inappropriate times.For those who do not know, linen is a summer fabric. But these TFs wear a black linen skirt with a gray linen tunic in the middle of January. In order to make up for the wild impracticality of all this, they then decide to pair the ensemble with clogs. If I didn’t know these women were 27-year-old grad students with an abiding interest the lesser-known...
...heroes, if there are any at all, sit behind gray desks in Moscow; Langley, Va.; and London. There they must sift through tons of material provided by hundreds of different sources before they can, with luck, piece together a picture of, say, the locking mechanism on a swing-wing fighter ... It is work that occupies tens of thousands of mathematicians and cryptographers, clerks and military analysts, often with the most trivial-seeming tasks. Yet it is work that no major nation feels it can afford to halt ... In the U.S., espionage was grossly neglected until the advent of the cold...
...modern day. Aristophanes, or any Greek playwright for that matter, might easily be considered dry entertainment for college students on a weekend night. But the Classics Club stupendously jazzed up the 2500-year-old play and had the audience appreciatively guffawing every other minute. It was the drab gray of the past spray-painted into a florescent, glittery, upbeat production—without losing reverence or appreciation for Aristophanes’ original classic. “The Birds,” as its title hints, is in fact, all about birds. Two Athenians, who are on the run because they...
Soft lighting reflected off classic long-stemmed wine glasses, complementing tall bottles of Merlot, plates piled with Jarlsberg and Brie, and the gray-tinted chalkboard—not what one would expect on a typical Wednesday night at Harvard Law School (HLS). But for the members of In Vino Veritas, it was business as usual.“Okay, guys, we’re going to get started,” third-year law student Tom Brown, who led the wine-tasting that evening, says, clinking together two tall water bottles. Background chatter died out as the members, still students...
...challenge, as well as many more after it ended in March. Rogers entered the pageant not to get in shape, but to raise awareness about global warming, an issue she championed as a Harvard undergrad and continues to work on today. “I was friends with Laurie Gray ’03, and she was Miss Rhode Island in 2003, and so that really got me thinking about the power of the organization,” Rogers said. “I really wanted an avenue to bring the message that we had been working on at Harvard...