Word: nay
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...joys can compare to sitting at my kitchen table over a slow breakfast with a tenderly folded (nay, lovingly tamed!) New York Times resting on the table beside my cereal. This joy only waxes when the cereal is replaced with pain au chocolat, the New York Times with Le Monde, and the table just happens to be in a petit café in France. From one of these joyful tables in Verdun, I send The Harvard Crimson this postcard...
...there was a girl in the neighborhood whose blood ever rose above the freezing point...nay if there was even a cherry-cheeked kitchen girl to romance with occasionally, it might possibly be endurable...
...school fairy tales, after all, are boring to us, not the kids. The Shrek movies have a nigh-scientific formula for the ratio of fart jokes to ask-your-mother jokes; Shrek the Third includes a visit to a fairy-tale high school where there's a Just Say Nay rally and a stoner-sounding kid stumbles out of a coach trailed by a cloud of "frankincense and myrrh" smoke. More broadly, each movie gives Shrek and Fiona an adult challenge: in the first, to find love and see beyond appearances; in Shrek 2, to meet the in-laws...
...just for intimidation purposes. Loeb House is perfectly suited for this, with glory holes Swiss cheesing all of its walls and boardroom tables. This setup makes voting on the Corporation really easy; boners for “yea,” limpies for “nay.” That’s why women aren’t allowed on the Corporation; nothing would ever get done. Luckily, presidents don’t need to vote, they just need to make choices. As a historian, Drew Faust has plenty of experience making choices, like when she omitted slavery...
...ability to analyze “primary texts and/or works of art…in light of their historical, social, economic and/or cross-cultural conditions of production and reception.” Detractors may claim that the distinction will be easily—and consistently—blurred. Such nay-sayers should bear in mind however, that this is not the Core we’re talking about; muddling of the sort that has marred the old curriculum quite simply won’t happen in the new. Trust...