Word: homeyness
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...power of positive eating. Certain foods, she claims, can evoke certain feelings. “I’m not just talking about the organic movement or various diets,” she says. “Warm carbohydrates, such as potatoes, make you feel very comfortable and homey, so if you were stressed and I wanted to make you feel better, I would give you something warm and soft and very flavorful. If you’re nervous, I could give you something chewy or crunchy, and play around with tastes depending on your mood...
...personalities determined by their architecture and geography. Leverett is unusual in having a large number of married tutor suites. In part because of this, our tutors tend to be older and more mature than resident tutors at other Houses. Some raise kids in the House. This contributes to a homey, family atmosphere at Leverett that I love and have tried to nurture...
...Afghanistan's Tora Bora region. "For Nepalese landmine victims we turn out wheelchairs in Kathmandu," says Ustinov. "Come to think of it, I could use one myself," he jokes, after a laborious landing in an armchair in his book-crammed living room. Ustinov seems to take comfort in the homey clutter of the room, with its well-read volumes and countless trophies of a long and varied career. He's less sanguine about the current state of global housekeeping. "It's a messy world today," he says. "It's like being thrown back in an age when people didn...
...mythology and still-undecided Greek letters will be the symbols of these new social domains, and their images will soon be scrawled on invitations slipped under doors across campus. One “society” promises to usher recruits into posh V.I.P. rooms; another looks to cultivate a homey atmosphere with popcorn and old movies. In a year when male final clubs have tempered their festive image, the number of female social clubs will soon equal the number of male final clubs. It’s a new social equation...
...Sorken, the title character of the night’s first short play, was comically rendered with just the right balance of homey quaintness and repressed homemaker syndrome by Andrea D. Leahy ’05. Mrs. Sorken gives us a speech on the etymological breakdown of the words such as theater and drama. “Drama,” among other things she tells us, is related to Dramamine, which prevents air-sickness, car sickness and general nausea—the ultimate goal of theater itself...