Word: knitting
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...BGLTSA.Yet despite its large virtual membership, BGLTSA’s other co-chair, Michelle C. Kellaway ’10, says that only a small number continually attend the group’s events and board meetings. The result is a core of students who enjoy a very tight-knit sense of community, but who unintentionally form a cliquish cohort that seems impenetrable to the gay students on the outside.“There’s still a big divide between us ‘BGLTSA gays’ and the ‘non-BGLTSA gays...
...We’re a tight-knit family, but even so, any event that brings that many relatives under one roof can easily devolve into argument...
...First Amendment and traditions of openness that sustain great universities,” Nichol said in the statement. Nichol’s ouster was met with protests by some students and faculty, according to Brian Whitson, a William and Mary spokesman. “This is a very close-knit community,” Whitson said. “It is certainly understandable and a healthy process for folks to express their opinions and to have the opportunity to be heard.” Summers also enjoyed widespread support from the student body even after he announced his resignation...
...that generation of reformers, the West was the shiny future, progress the ultimate good. English and French were spoken round the dinner table, and the women gathered to knit the latest Paris fashions. These children of a revolution dreamed of a westernized Turkey, and naively believed a little social engineering would get them there. Modernity was their religion...
...tree-lined streets. She is serenely happy and in love with her new husband, Kazuhito, and his tanned arms and adorable round ears. Her new extended family, moreover, loves her. They welcome and dazzle her with praise, and appear in many ways to be typical of large, conservative, close-knit, multigenerational families. They eat dinner and watch TV together. The men are breadwinners (Kazuhito and his father Takeo manage a rice mill); the able women (Noriko and Kazuhito's mother and sister and grandmother) cook and clean while babysitting Kazuhito's mentally handicapped younger brother and nursing both...