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...extent the characters in the novella are conscious of the role they play in the proceedings. A vague sense of emergency lies at the very foundations of the totalitarian state: “We didn’t speak about it: there was nothing to say, but we just knew...We had an atrocity to prevent.” With this vague decree as their unwavering motto, Martens and his colleagues sense that the Salinas is guilty, before they even know what he’s guilty of. Vagueness is a tool Kertész uses efficiently to protect...
...husband, but when she hadn't heard from him by 6:45, Melissa placed another call to Martin's cell phone. "I haven't got in yet, I haven't got in yet," Martin told her, voice shaking. "Let me call you back, sweetie." Then he hung up. "I knew," Melissa says quietly, "something was terribly wrong...
...Williams is now 8-1 on the season. The only loss of the group came at No. 2 with freshman Alisha Mashruwala going down 9-3, 9-1, 2-9, 9-0. Behind 4-2 heading into the final three matches, the Crimson knew that it had to win all of them. However, only injured captain Supriya Balsekar was able to succeed. Playing down in the No. 7 spot, the senior came out with a convincing three game victory in which she only dropped three points. Facing the Bulldogs’ Miranda Ranieri, perhaps the top college player...
...most heartbreaking match of the night, No. 2 DiSesa was up 2-0 against Bulldog sophomore Aaron Fuchs. But Fuchs rallied back in the third game and closely won 10-8. Fuchs then went on win the next two games and the match. Entering the contest, the Crimson knew that Yale would be a tough opponent, but the loss was still very surprising. “We expected the match to be close, but in the end we thought we would beat them,” DiSesa said. One aspect that contributed Harvard’s loss was lack...
...Speaking as a man, given the choice between someone who was awed by my knowledge of the Renaissance and someone who knew as much about it as I and thought that, frankly, I was a little too short and Jewish, I would pick the former every time. This is what Harvard women are up against. While Harvard guys can take the bus to Wellesley and find themselves seized by hordes of fair-to-moderately nubile houris, the thought of Harvard women riding over to, say, Wabash College and snaring eager men seems patently absurd. Aside from the transportation costs involved...