Word: massing
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Anna L. Tang, the Wellesley College junior who allegedly stabbed her ex-boyfriend on Oct. 23 and is under house arrest, received court permission on Monday to use a gym in her apartment complex and participate in church services in Natick, Mass. “She is allowed now to go to Mass one day a week on Saturdays,” said Robert A. George, Tang’s lawyer. “She is allowed to exercise. Everything we’ve asked for has been received. That’s not to say that is enough. Right...
...unifying theme of the undergraduate buildings, of course, is that historical redbrick pattern epitomized by the façade of Mass. Hall. Memorial Church’s gleaming spire rests on bricks ,and Widener has them tucked between its Corinthian columns; even Memorial Hall, which Gomes singled out as the one incongruously gothic building around the yard, is really more of a shotgun wedding between the Georgian standard and an imposing gothic cathedral...
When I was in middle school, there was a television station called “The Box.” A kind of mass-scale precursor to YouTube, it played music videos—chosen entirely by viewers—twenty-four hours a day. If I wanted to see pop at its trashy best (apparently viewers just could not get enough of Eiffel 65’s “Blue”), “The Box” was the place.“Mirrorball,” a series of four programs of carefully selected music...
...Best Recommended” project at the end of 2007 to bridge the gap between bestseller lists, which show what a lot of people are reading, and book reviews, which show what a few people think is good. According to their blog, “Critical Mass,” “it felt like a moment had yet to be seized about finding out what a lot of people said was good.” Nearly 500 of the NBCC’s member critics voted on the first “Best Recommended” list, plus...
...there was something just a wee bit creepy about the mass messianism - "We are the ones we've been waiting for" - of the Super Tuesday speech and the recent turn of the Obama campaign. "This time can be different because this campaign for the presidency of the United States of America is different. It's different not because of me. It's different because of you." That is not just maddeningly vague but also disingenuous: the campaign is entirely about Obama and his ability to inspire. Rather than focusing on any specific issue or cause - other than an amorphous desire...