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Remember that time freshman year when we had so much fun at [past event that you won't remember and therefore can't dispute]? I still think about you all the time and can't wait for us to sit down over [meal time] and talk about [noun]. [Interjection]! Time flies by so [adverb]. But now, it's time for us to move on to bigger and [superfluous adjective] things. I'm writing not only to find out how you're doing but also to let you know that I'm running for Class Marshal! Isn't that [self-deprecating...
...absolutely cannot underestimate the vital role the name of a theatrical space plays in its ranking. To those savvy in Harvard theater (and even to those not), the knowledge that a show will be performed on the Loeb Mainstage earns untold respect. Truly, the compound noun "mainstage" says...
...sensation surrounding the elevation of Senator Joseph Lieberman, an Orthodox Jew, to a national ticket lies less in the noun than in the adjective: Jews in American public life are old news; Orthodox Jews...
...Democratic and Republican tickets, there are three candidates who went to Yale and one who went to Harvard. In the lexicon of American political language, is there a collective noun to describe candidates who went to Yale or Harvard...
...place sit rows and rows of gleaming successes. Last week, on the same day that I saw Wonder Boys, I watched a different bunch of wonder boys (and women) strut their stuff on a TV special called Summit in Silicon Valley. ("Bunch" is wrong for the collective noun. "Grin?") I watched a grin of high-tech billionaires sunning themselves in national adoration, bright models of achievement for every double-breasted hopeful yearning for a Lexus. No one mentioned beautiful losers. The last shall be last...