Word: mournfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many people mourn? Why do so many mourn her still? Was it because when the heroine of a fairy tale perishes, something dies in us as well? Diana shared with many people the fond if naive belief that the perfectibility of the family--making it stable, firm, happy--would help save humankind. Her father and mother had failed miserably at family. She did not intend to. But she stumbled into the very nightmare she sought to avoid and became the spectacular mirror for other people's disappointments: the most splendid of cautionary tales. In the monumental ruin of Diana...
...fret not. "I think we're going to have a wake to celebrate what we've done, rather than mourn," said Richard Cook, Pathfinder's mission manager. Those whiskeys will be well-deserved: the $266 million probe was only supposed to last a month. Instead, it was more than 90 days between touchdown on July 4 and last contact on October...
...over the play, because its acting and production values are otherwise quite strong. The rest of the cast ranges from competent to excellent: Christina Voros '99 is a standout as the doomed Banquo, combining the dignity of a soldier and officer with a serious, perceptive humanity that makes one mourn her character's death. Emily Bishop '99 holds her own in the linchpin role of Lady Macbeth. While this particular production subordinates Lady Macbeth to Macbeth himself, Bishop does a good job of showing us the ambition and the ruthlessness of her character; her increasingly strained expression in the banquet...
...become an integral part of University life, and though administrators may mourn the days when students actually had to leave their dorm rooms to acquire information, those days are rapidly disappearing. Web access to final exams will make our lives easier; and updating the search engine for the on-line CUE Guide will make being lazy easier. But it is up to students to navigate new technology, not crotchety committees...
...mourn the loss of forced retirement, for what keeps an academic institution vital but new ideas? New generations require new blood. Since we will not see mandatory retirement again, however, we urge the University to recommend retirement to all professors over 75, and to encourage them to retire with financial incentives...