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...March 1 front-page feature reported that Alexander Gordon ’06 had once participated in a five-day “sleep and sensory deprivation study” at Massachusetts General Hospital, in which he was “placed in a cell with dim, unchanging light...
...Lord Alfred Tennyson, Abrams emphasized the aural aspects of the works, which he said are often often lost when poems are read silently. In W.H. Auden’s “On This Island,” Abrahms read aloud the line, “The leaping light for your delight discovers,” and then explained how the repeated syllable brings back the preternatural delight a baby takes in repeating newly learned sounds, such as “la la la la.” Kingsley University Professor Helen Vendler, who met Abrams in 1960 after becoming...
...officer was dispatched to take a report of an individual who collided with a motor vehicle while riding his bicycle. There was no damage done to the motor vehicle. The bicycle sustained damage to the front tire, braking mechanism, rear light, and gear mechanism. The individual refused any medical assistance...
...book on personal achievement is based on portraits of a long departed generation, men like John D. Rockefeller and Thomas Edison. And Peale, a Christian minister, appealed to a straight-laced 50s set. “The Secret,” in contrast, has a slick, contemporary feel: light on the religion, heavy on the spirituality, and sprinkled with allusions to quantum physics...
...Gatorade and water—in one meal. When they pump iron in the weight room, strength coach Craig Fitzgerald gives his players a unique motivational mantra that influences their eating as well.“I’m gonna swipe in, load up my tray, and light my hair on fire,” says junior offensive lineman Tom Rodger, invoking the coach’s favorite inspirational phrase.As a result, these linemen are constantly conscious of their weight and eating habits. After commiting to join the team in their senior year of high school, they are given...