Word: melding
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...soft jazz music wafting down the hallway, it’s also the perfect time.But life at Harvard hasn’t always been so perfect for Yu, who counts an Office For the Arts fellowship for the current year among her many achievements. Yu found it difficult to meld her differing interests together in a coherent way when she first arrived at Harvard.“When I first entered Harvard I was confused because I found different selves yearning to do more,” she says. “I took an Ec class and found...
...since 2002, he's also got his mind firmly focused on giving the brand a new look. "Desirability is the main focus," says Atwood. To begin, he dipped into the 157-year-old company's archives of some 13,000 pairs of shoes for inspiration. After pulling ideas to meld into new designs, Atwood set to work creating special pieces for the modern woman. "It's a very fast-moving consumer," he says. "We have to give them the product that they need." He's off to a good start: recent designs include quilted patent-leather beauty cases...
...scene is drawn-out and painful, making it the most reverent of the Shakespearean tragedy in the ballet. When Juliet awakes to find her lover’s dead body beside her, she instinctively wraps her legs and arms around him and rocks him back and forth. Their bodies meld into one another, transcending the line between life and death, as she dances with his limp form. It’s as if her spirit dies at the sight of Romeo, and the knife is just an afterthought. The visceral nature of “Romeo and Juliet...
...sometimes tradition and new technology meld, if not marry. Central Market has an office for Bharatmatrimony.com, an online site that facilitates traditional arranged marriages - still the preferred way to find a mate for most Indians. (The sexual revolution, Bijapurkar says, is unlikely in India.) The office in Central Market is for parents left out of India's high-tech revolution. Flesh-and-blood staffers are on hand here to help parents navigate the unknown information highway...
...want to continue to strengthen Harvard’s fabulous collections in old printed material,” Darnton said, “but at the same time I want to help Harvard move into the world of digitized information.” To show how one could meld the e-book and the “old book,” Darnton told his audience about an electronic book that he plans to write which readers could then customize. Inspired by an archive in an old Swiss town in which he found—and spent 14 summers reading?...