Word: grounds
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Anne Bradstreet, though of course unable to attend Harvard-even talented as she was, is an ideal choice to represent the ground-breaking women of the class of 1976. She struggled against a maledominated society which frowned on her writing. Professor Vendler quoted from Bradstreet's poem "The Prologue," in her remarks on Saturday: "I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/Who says my hand a needle better fits." The carping tongues were blissfully silent this weekend, and Bradstreet now ushers us into the Yard, a constant reminder of the achievements past and still to come. We can all sing "Fair...
...Anya saved us against Penn, especially in overtime," said DiMarzio of Cowan, who made 11 saves against Penn. "She had a particularly unbelievable save in overtime, when she went down on the ground, got up and had to clear it herself...
Excess heat in the tunnels is vented out through above-ground vents "mushrooms" to tunnel workers-of which the most visible is located next to a path outside Canaday Hall...
JUSTICE DELAYED. For IRA EINHORN, 57, hippie guru and convicted murderer who was run to ground last June after a 16-year manhunt (TIME, Sept. 29, 1997); by a French appeals court, which said it would rule on the U.S.'s extradition request on Nov. 4; in Bordeaux, France...
...that, unlike the many writers of his generation, he has lived to a ripe old age. "I got to look back," he crowed at the Brattle, "And I feel lucky as hell." In the course of "looking back" through the lens of Timequake, he covers a lot of familiar ground: his trademark anti-nuclear sentiments are very much in evidence, especially at the beginning of the book, and he spends a good deal of time on World War II and the death of American socialism. As a result, the discourse often sounds very dated, an effect which is amplified...