Word: latters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...find this assumption about the community's political stance to be thoughtless and personally offensive. We hope that your choice of headlines was an oversight and not a promotion of the said assumption. If it was the latter, please review your responsibility to uphold the standards of good journalism and please reconsider the use of your power to manipulate your readership. Julia M. Fromholz '92 Courtney Alaine Williams...
...sensible one it is--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 hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for system beating, his Vague Generalities 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...
...salted peanuts cost more than unsalted ones? Because the former is deemed a taxable snack, while the latter is a grocery -- and thus exempt from Canada's new 7% goods-and-services tax. A six-pack of yogurt and a dozen oranges are tax-free at the corner grocery, but one of each gets hit when bought in a cafeteria line. Self-employed workers earning less than $30,000 a year don't have to collect and pay the tax at all, so a wash-and-set at the hairdresser could cost $10.70 in one chair and only...
Brahms: The Three Violin Sonatas, Itzhak Perlman, violin; Daniel Barenboim, piano (Sony Classical). There are half a dozen or so great sonatas for violin and piano; Brahms wrote three of them. Perlman and Barenboim -- the latter back at the keyboard, where he belongs -- give them robust yet sensitive readings...
...arguments the department could profer for this Anglophilic bias are rooted in the classical tradition. Undoubtedly, there is a greater tradition of British literature. British works roughly date from the 14th century. Scholars might argue that a truly American voice does not emerge until the latter half of the 18th, or early 19th century...