Word: idea
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Though the idea of middle-aged men appealing to the youth of America has proved piquant to late teen and twenty-somethings, the message of Sen. McCain (R-Ariz.) appears to resonate unusually well...
With Eliot House's 143-35 vote last Sunday, all 12 House Committees have now voted to endorse the move to UKA. The council whisked through legislation expressing their approval of UKA last night and, most importantly, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68--once lukewarm to the idea of UKA--is now one of its most ardent supporters...
Former Undergraduate Council President Lamelle D. Rawlins '99 first approached Lewis about UKA in the spring of 1997, but says he was not sold on the idea...
...idea, says council treasurer Sterling P. A. Darling '01, was to convince the administration of the workability of UKA through successful test runs in some houses and campus-wide surveys of student interest in the matter...
...Scarry's writing is not always lucid. She sometimes lets an idea wrap itself around and strangle a sentence. The bold argument laid out in the first chapters of the book gives way to examinations of devices that seem imposed upon, rather than found in literary works. Her system of categories makes her argument seem more complete and scientific than it could possibly be, and the reader is disappointed...