Word: intrepid
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Present!, an organization of intrepid upperclassmen now in its sophomore year, focuses more intensely on happenings. The group describes itself as “devoted to sharing, exploring and enjoying the visible and hidden, the now and the future and the impossible, the spontaneous and the momentary, from many sides....” Present! also publishes a creative literary magazine and takes part in other events that are more formal and structured...
...intrepid artists of Harvard are constantly looking towards the future. “We’re hoping to have a Silent Dance at the Harvard-Yale game,” Mahfouda said enthusiastically. “We’re hoping to get a lot of small radios and headphones—WHRB [Harvard’s radio show] will be involved—and have everyone tune in to the show and dance. That way there’s no noise, but the music’s everywhere...
...Since 2002, Cashell and his Mongolian wife, Tsendsuren, have been providing basic creature comforts for intrepid visitors to Mongolia's capital, Ulan Bator. At their guesthouse, tel: (976) 9909 1899, backpackers pay $5-$15 for one of 50 beds per night. Travelers are usually delighted to trade sleeping mats for queen-size beds and mare's milk for Cashell's signature turkey melts, which he serves up at the hostel's UB Deli. He has a library of DVDs, too, for those who eventually get bored of gazing at the forested Haert Khaan mountain range...
...love of ambiguity and restless sense of privacy that made Greene one of the defining writers of the past century rendered him a mystery in life, even to himself. Fifteen or so years before his death, perhaps as one of his celebrated pranks, the aging novelist appointed an intrepid Joseph Conrad scholar, Norman Sherry, to be his official biographer. In the 28 years since his appointment, Sherry followed Greene to more than 20 countries, got dysentery in the same mountain village where Greene got dysentery and tracked down almost everyone who knew him. Yet as Sherry brings his massive project...
...chilly 5.6?C, and July's rainy season churns up sediment that turns the Colorado chocolate brown. But the water's perils and the sun's searing heat are offset by the Canyon's peaceful aspects: from big-horned sheep scaling cliffs to ancient Pueblan red-clay homes. Intrepid rafters are now making the season's final trips, which run May to October...