Word: mountains
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...write a political parable but because the more he thought of this imagined place, the more it fascinated him. Its texture is rich and believable. Early in his career the President bankrupted the small nation to build an old folks' home at the base of a big mountain. Now, "mountain-viewing" is local slang for dying. That sounds real. And so does the quotation Leithauser slyly invents for Herman Melville, "on his sole North Atlantic whaling voyage" in 1850: Freeland, the great writer deplored, was "a humble acme in the planet's perennial pursuit of utter desolation...
...worry. I haven't always been a ski bum," Kevin F. Fitzpatrick '83 said to me on the chair lift up Okemo Mountain, where my roommates and I had sallied for a day or two of our brief intersession. Kevin was charged with the 1:15 group lesson for Skill 8 last Friday at the Ludlow, Vt. ski site. I was one of two members of the group, the other being a somewhat mute 13 year-old who, like myself, was supposedly proficient in parallel turning and sought to bridge the chasm between the intermediate blue squares and the advanced...
Today, Kevin lives year-round in the Green Mountain State with his second wife and their child. Upon graduation, Kevin had shipped off to Wall Street like so many of his money-driven go-go '80s peers. It wasn't his first choice, but he had outstanding student loans. His parents thought it proper that he pay them off, and get some of that work ethic into his mind to wear off the towered Ivy League mind-set he then had. He worked the Street for a few years, moving from firm to firm in the usual procession, making...
Last night's game was the team's first after a two-week respite for exams, and in the first half, it showed. The Crimson stifled the Mountain Hawks' leading scorer, Brett Eppehimer, holding him to zero first-half points, but teammate Dan Handerhan tallied 16 and Vinnie McCaffery hit two three-pointers. Harvard also had no first-half points from its bench, and sophomore point guard Tim Hill could only hit two out of his first 10 shots...
What helped the Crimson, however, was aided by 17 Mountain Hawk turnovers, many of which were of the unforced variety. Lehigh also had its troubles shooting the ball, finishing at 39.6 percent from the field for the game...