Word: limerick
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...said that all stories have two sides. In the best stories, the two sides are inseparable. Pull them apart, and it makes the whole thing meaningless. "[The expedition] has that mixed quality of great news for one people and bad news for another group of people," says Patricia Limerick, who chairs the board of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado in Boulder. "It is not the greatest news," she says, "to have a party of agents of empire come through...
...long run, Limerick is right, of course, but the Lewis and Clark expedition was really a series of short runs placed end to end until it stretched all the way to the Pacific. At a time when Americans have every reason to fear what's waiting for them down the trail, from enemy armies to our capacity for misunderstanding and miscalculation, it's important to remember that what's to come is first a matter of what one does today, here, on this spot. All those footsteps will...
Morin, who earned his Ph.D. in physics from Harvard in 1996, says the limericks are designed to make the book more enjoyable to read and don’t represent any deep insights into physics (“they’re just a geeky thing I like to do”). He first began writing them five years ago when the American Physical Society held a physics limerick-writing contest, and he has used his sourcebook as an excuse to continue composing...
Luckily, Arthur R.H. Baum ’05 broke the ice with a limerick paying homage to the man who inspired the event...
...March slam, the shy poet-physicists divided into groups, each writing one line of a limerick before passing it off for the next group to compose the next line. This communal limericking resulted in mostly nonsense, but one poem survived the activity...