Word: lightness
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...first thing you notice upon entering the center's private residential wing is the library-like hush. Interior lights remain off during daytime, putting the halls and chambers of the numeraries in a half-light. The blue carpeting on the floors is unmistakably institutional, and the aging hardwood furniture, oil paintings of ships at sea adorning the walls and wooden doorways with transoms give the place an almost clubby, old-world feel. This is the beating heart of Opus Dei. The chambers themselves, where a dozen numeraries and priests make their homes, are spartan and impeccably orderly. Hardly a scrap...
...Truth which each Harvard student knows: “And the Lord caused his knowledge to dwell there, and he called it ‘Harvard.’” Our institution, set upon the beautiful banks of the mighty Charles River, has been a beacon of light, knowledge, and truth for hundreds of years. The oldest, and perhaps the only, true university in America welcomes you, prefrosh. We welcome the lucky few who have overcome staggering odds and grueling competition to reach the pinnacle of academic achievement: an acceptance to Harvard University. Many will tell...
...first times that I saw a lot of people interested in Latino culture. From then I knew that I also wanted to take on a leadership role. I feel that Presencia Latina is the one event where Latinos are really shown in a very positive light, and I want to share that with everybody...
...According to Jeri Foutter, a CSB representative, the new clock uses LED technology and has a lower energy consumption level than the old one, which adorned the building for six years. Foutter wrote in an e-mail that the new clock possesses better visibility in variable light conditions and from different angles. The light bulb will also need to be changed about once every five years, less frequently than the old clock’s bulb. Regardless of what students call its aesthetic failures, most of the students asked expressed appreciation for the clock’s utilitarian value. Quad...
...prisoners, were kept” or evoking complex South African language politics through a piece about fig trees, Stopforth’s remarkable skill as storyteller, political actor, and artist shines throughout. His work and his words perform a kind of near-alchemic synesthesia, drawing together the colors of light, the sounds of protest, and the rough texture of nations. And in the end, the quality of his art is met only by the clarity of his words: he states simply, “Drawing is one way of articulating my relationship to the world...