Word: humors
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...tick, tick...BOOM!,” main character Jon (Derek S. Mueller ’10) humorously agonizes for a whole song—whimsically titled “Sugar”—over the process of buying a Twinkie. He compares it to trying to buy a pack of condoms: both involve the characteristic guilty body language, the overt attempts at subtlety, and the cashier’s tendency to nip the purchaser’s unobtrusiveness in the bud. A few scenes later, Jon’s best friend reveals that he is seriously...
...track on last year’s “Fishscale.” These tales, Ghost’s hallmark, are generally fantastical stories of drugs, women, and dramatic violence. But on “The Big Doe Rehab,” gratuitous gore replaces some of the humor and intrigue characteristic of earlier songs. The beats aren’t all bad either; “Rec Room Therapy” and the funk-tastic “Supa GFK” are both pretty phenomenal tracks. Most of the other songs don’t have...
...Tourette’s patient who finds an outlet for his tics by playing the piano; and the severely amnesiac musician who, despite having only a seven-second memory, can still find peace of mind by playing music. Sacks treats all these cases with a mixture of compassion, humor, and curiosity. He is especially careful not to turn his patients into objects of detached scientific study, always emphasizing their humanity and his own emotional investment in their cases.The essays are filled with easily understandable background scientific information as well as fascinating anecdotes about writers, philosophers, musicians, and composers. It might...
...really has been an awesome resident dean,” Harris said to The Crimson, “He’s been an amazing person to have here. We will obviously miss him.” Students said they would remember Kargère for his wit, humor, and accessibility. “He’s fantastic—everybody here really loves him,” Cabot resident Samuel C. Brondfield ’08 said. “He’s just a really nice guy.” In the time Karg?...
...arrested on Oct. 14 during his unsuccessful attempt to fell the trees that had been recently planted on the Mt. Auburn Street island in front of the castle housing the Harvard Lampoon—a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. Powers is also a member of the Lampoon...