Word: knitting
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Although both groups rehearsed only a few times specifically for the concert, members said they shared a bond from playing together before, adding that the jazz community at Harvard is small and close-knit...
...witnessed the emergence of the new rootless, ego-driven individual as it broke free from old close-knit societies and became afflicted with craving, pride, jealousy and hatred while acting upon its newly expanded world. But unlike such modern thinkers as Hobbes and Marx, the Buddha didn't assume that a model of society was needed that could contain the rampaging egos of human beings. He proposed none of the massive restructurings of society familiar to us in our own times: revolution, socialism, democracy, capitalism or regime change. He insisted that suffering is a mental experience, born from desire, attachment...
Most of Zeta-Jones’ day was spent in the company of this tightly knit group of 57 Harvard undergraduates. “We got to sit at a table with Catherine Zeta-Jones,” gushed Maggie F. Shipstead ’05, one of the show’s authors...
...close-knit group has even adopted nicknames for each other. Peirce Assistant Professor of Mathematics Albert Chau is known as “The Professor” for his tendency to over-analyze shots, while James C. Lee ’05 goes by the moniker “The Kid.” Due to the painstaking attention he pays to the details of the game, Jonathan P. Lee ’08 has become known as “The Perfectionist...
...longer running for anything other than history's judgment, George W. Bush delivered his second Inaugural Address under a cold sky to a sea of hats--fur and knit and 10 gallon. Laura looked like a bride in white. The only warmth came from the words, a 21-min. oration crackling with imagery burning almost out of control: the "day of fire" that changed everything three years ago, the "untamed fire of freedom" that "will reach the darkest corners of our world." The message embedded inside the address was, in the words of a White House adviser, "Don't back...