Word: landed
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...Lucy. She lives by herself on an isolated smallholding in the Eastern Cape that she shares with a black farmer, Petrus, in a farmhouse that previously housed a hippie commune to which she belonged. David and Lucys relationship is cordial but distant, and her choice to live off the land seems to be a calculated rejection of his intellectual, urban life. Her decision is informed by a refusal to live her life according to abstract ideas...
...child-like student. Luries reaction to the incident is the opposite of Lucys. She resigns herself to living in the harsh, concrete realities of the present without resorting to any form of escape. She seems to accept the violence done to her and Petruss encroachment on her land as a kind of indirect punishment for the historical wrongs committed by her race. To Lurie, this is at first incomprehensible. He still needs to have recourse to avenues of escape from realityphysical pleasure; a fantasy about writing an opera on the poet Byron and his mistress Teresa; a longing...
Imagine a coalition of dictatorships. They want to buy Harvard a brand-new Center for the Study of Dictatorships. They want to name a professorship after Saddam Hussein. And they would pay for everything. Surely Harvard could find a plot of land on its expanding campus and some eager young professors to teach the courses...
...only will his Berkeley students and colleagues mourn the loss of Noguera's scholarship and activism, but his unorthodox pronouncement has set tongues wagging on both sides of the land...
Egelhoff pushed the lead to 73-46 with 5:24 left on a three-pointer from the left corner. She finished with 11 points on the night, shooting 3-of-5 from three-point land...