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...collections of Houghton Library’s Edison-Newman Room, acclaimed poet Simon Armitage read select poems evoking images of his native English landscape before a packed audience last night. Speaking some lines with slow, measured syllables and others with rapid, beat-like inflections, Armitage led his audience to laugh at his unexpected images, tap their fingers to the beat of his words, and lean forward to catch his every fading syllable. “Simon’s poetry behaves characteristically in a very recognizable geography of everyday life,” English Professor W. James Simpson said...
...dressed up term “special work detail” makes you laugh, Dorm Crew’s shout-out in “An Expensive Education” is imbued with a similar significance. While the elite are out swilling Bloody Marys for Sunday brunch at Deadalus, international students are swishing Mur-Kil down their shower drains. “The introductory meeting looked like an abbreviated European Union of reluctant janitors. A Scottish piano virtuoso, two Irishmen, half a dozen girls from Eastern Europe who were either short and stout like potato balls or tall and thin...
...have a favorite You Might be a Redneck If...joke? It's kind of like picking between your children. When I wrote "If you've ever stared at a can of orange juice because it said concentrate...," that made me laugh...
...terrifying last year, just making sure not to let my team down,” Hanson says with a laugh as he recalls his first game. “I was looking at the Holy Cross film [from 2008], and I was playing like 20 yards deep every time making sure I didn’t get beat...
...unit had a lot of question marks, and opponents knew it—among Ivy League squads, Harvard endured the second-highest number of pass attempts as teams strove to exploit its young defense. Instead, it was the Crimson that got the last laugh...