Word: harmlessness
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...absorbed pride in professional achievements and status will be quickly shattered by remembering that these friends know the real “truth” about me from college and medical school. I look forward to reminiscing with my Adams House roommates about our many pranks. These were (mostly) harmless, adolescent, idiotic and sophomoric forms of mischief born out of the monotony of studying for finals—in other words, some of the highlights of my Harvard education. Discounting activities previously reported in the Harvard Crimson Crime Report, or those still within the statute of limitations...
...absorbed pride in professional achievements and status will be quickly shattered by remembering that these friends know the real “truth” about me from college and medical school. I look forward to reminiscing with my Adams House roommates about our many pranks. These were (mostly) harmless, adolescent, idiotic and sophomoric forms of mischief born out of the monotony of studying for finals—in other words, some of the highlights of my Harvard education. Discounting activities previously reported in the Harvard Crimson Crime Report, or those still within the statute of limitations...
...Narayan's mystical idea of an eternal India is antihistorical. But without that idea, and its associated religious sentiments, he would not have arrived at his remarkable way of looking and his peerless humor. A more clear-sighted man would not have been able to filter out or make harmless the distress of India, as Narayan does in Malgudi. But then we wouldn't have had the great early books...
...then a four-eyed sense of fairness raises its hand in the back of the mind. Well, dodge ball can be nasty. It masquerades as such a harmless school game - that was supposed to be the point of it: violence without contusions, the mildest simulation, War for Girls! - that no one has thought to impose civilizing restraints, with the result that the hyenas in the class, hunting as a pack, feel free to cut loose and batter the other kids. We've all seen this. It dovetails with recent pop sociology about an adolescent culture of bullying...
...idea of "Vermeer and the Delft School" is a harmless red herring, a pretext for looking at Vermeer and a few lesser artists who happened to be around in the same town at the same time. There was no distinctive Delft school. In the 17th century the place harbored only one artist whose talents approached Vermeer's--the slightly older Pieter de Hooch (1629-84), who was originally from Rotterdam but worked in Delft for about five years in the 1650s. Vermeer and De Hooch had several things in common, the main one being that nothing at all is known...