Word: latters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...working out some system of fooling the grader; although I think I should prefer the word "impressing." We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hyper-credulous simps. His first two tactics for system beating, his Vague Gerneralities and Artful Equivocations, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
Neither solution is a possible end. The latter would deny the liberal tradition of the Jews. The former would wipe out the concept of the Jewish state. Some other solution must be found and it can only be achieved at the initiative of all Jews...
...yokels from the Bartles & Jaymes ad. "I want you to meet a couple of friends of mine -- Frank and Ed," he tells an unwary visitor. He admits to two vices, Scotch old-fashioneds and raspberry sherbet. After he wrote a column about the scarcity of the latter, merchants started stocking...
...safe with any of the above and shrimp in hot black bean sauce ($8.95). The latter is a very generous portion (a dozen large-to-middling size shrimps) in a sauce made complex by the addition of fermented black beans. The beans are the basis of a rich sauce of their own in Cantonese cookery. Here their aromas blend with the Szechwan bouquet in a way that I find very novel. Perhaps this is the "continental cuisine" of Taipei, where Chef Hou won his epaulettes at a major hotel...
There are some thing that the Harvard social life needs, and there are some things it doesn't need. Finals clubs fall into the latter category. Where do you think Harvard's uptight, snotty, and detached social atmosphere comes from? Certainly not from the snotty, exclusive, all male finals clubs whose members waltz around in tuxedos and perform male-bonding exercises in the wood-panelled back rooms of their prissy Cambridge houses, talking about Mr. Smidgetpoop '51, alumnus of this particular club, who's now president of Merrill, Lynch...