Word: odes
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...palm leaves, Korans 25 mm wide (written so the verses form the shapes of animals) and, in the margins of verses by the poet Hafiz, annotations by the Mughal Emperors Humayun and Jahangir. There are even jottings by Byron - two verses added by the English poet to his "Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte." With so few visitors, director Imtiaz Ahmad will dig out his most precious pieces for you to peruse over chai and spicy chips. "The academic traditions of this city will endure," he says. "They are weakened, but not lost." It's almost enough to restore your faith...
Sophomore co-captain Dan Tsai led the men’s team at EISAs, taking 37th in giant slalom and 42nd in slalom, followed by sophomore co-captain Eric Ode...
...sits back down and charts out the bar crawl he will lead to Highland Falls that Saturday. They'll start, it's decided, at Hacienda: "Great margaritas, supercheap." If this is the night for the cadets to savor the choices they have made, then he'll also offer his ode to the infantry. "Everything is based off the infantry. Take engineering--that's just smart infantry. But I love it. I love...
Perhaps the honor for most unusual piece of the night should go to Tina Tanhehco’s ’05 “Family Games,” which featured a rather obvious criticism of familial roles and an ode to the multi-tasking role of the mother. From start to finish, the dance was distinctive, even beginning in silence while two dancers, dressed like toddler twins in bright pastel floral smocks, encircled the stage in a heavy-footed soldier-step, looking like mirror images of each other. After outlasting a program of seven relatively demure acts with...
...other hand, Foer makes a welcome effort to contextualize Sept. 11, and what saves Extremely Loud from being a kind of ode to its earth-shattering enormity is his presentation of other tragedies as predecessors. In addition to stories about the American destruction of Dresden, there is a transcript of an interview with a Hiroshima survivor, which Oskar plays for a school project, also reporting on the scientific dimensions of the atom bomb...