Word: neatness
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...will be neat to see the roof in gold like it was when the castle was first built," said Kenneth C. Lai '97, the Lampoon sanctum, whose position involves taking care of the building...
...neat to see the shadow of the earth," said a Quincy House junior, "I didn't believe it was really going to happen, but now I'm really excited...
...come to this tone in a different way. Hall's long and venerable career, beginning (as he writes in "The Old Life," the central poem of his book) "on the Advocate in nineteen forty-eight," has taken him through a range of styles. After an early phase of neat, metrical poems, and a later bout with surrealism, his poetry has more recently developed certain regular characteristics: the use of ordinary diction; an engagement with certain issues, especially family history, the difference between urban and rural life and the approach of death; and, frequently, the use of a central conceit, sometimes...
...this precocious thumbing of noses at the industry that made them millionaires can be tolerated, R.E.M.'s New Adventures in HiFi is a complex and layered album. And, yes, some of the songs have that trademark R.E.M. neat-and-tidy quality which promises much radio airplay. The album doesn't feel as innovative as Monster, musically speaking, but as the most recent footprint left by a band with seven-league boots, New Adventures in HiFi is inevitably fascinating...
...Howard Hughes' symptoms included an insistence on having a germ-free environment and all his windows permanently sealed. The schoolchildren are more inclined to count cracks in the blacktop (for them, "Step on a crack, break your mother's back" is frighteningly literal) or meticulously arrange their crayons in neat rows, again and again, to avert some imagined catastrophe...