Word: ingenius
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...Madonna really given it all up? Has she become a "worshipper at the guru's lotus feet" as she professes in "Shanti/Ashtangi"? Probably not. Yet, even if it all is another ingenius marketing ploy, she has certainly matured. With baby Lourdes prompting her to shed the superficial exterior, we're finally seeing Madonna's artistic core. And indeed, it's a captivating, haunting, dazzling alluring one that will reenergize both her career and her fans. Like a prayer indeed...
Robert Dorfman '55, Wells Professor of Political Economy, described Buchanan as "ingenius and fair-minded...
...traditional critical approaches are useless. Gardner has demonstrated in his novels his disapproval of rendering the world as it is. Grendel set about to reshape the Beowulf epic into the same philosophical query, using the skeptical monster as its prime agent. The small scale of that work, and its ingenius conception made it much more approachable. The came the Sunlight Dialogues, a very lengthy piece of prose with over 100 characters. Here, a great conglomeration of metaphysics is structured along the lines of a modern Grail Quest. Its one redeeming quality seems to be the real world Gardner so cautiously...
Another more ingenius and plausible theory is that the movement of the basket is due to vibration. The vibrations in this case are supposed to come from the Cambridge power paint, and the basket is assumed to be exactly at the vibration point. Its balance is so nice, moreover, that the slightest disturbance might conceivably keep it in motion. But even this theory, exemplifying as it does the most intricate reaches of modern science, strains the credulity of the ignorant layman...
Many able adapters of the pit-a-padding rhythms have been concerned with these developments: Fatherly Theodore Snyder, composer of The Sheik; George M. Cohan, the Irish jigamarig, writer of buck-and-wing dips; George Gershwin, ingenius, musicianly; Jerome Kern, melodist; Tintinnabulator Zev Confrey, who wrote Kitten-on-the-Keys. But more important than any of this company is a certain Israel Baline who took the name of an English actor and a German city, became known to the public as Irving Berlin. For the last ten years, he has written a national anthem a year. His prodigality has never...