Word: olden
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...While these examples serve as “lessons to be learned from” antitheses to the idealized Indian family, they are not just mere aberrations. Bollywood and elders now romanticize a time of close-knit familial relations that seems impossibly forced, even for the olden times. The realities of family rifts are often rewritten in golden age retellings of the joint-family collective memory, or dismissed as the result of wayward relatives and brash younger generations. Surely Dhirubhai Ambani may be rolling over in his grave, but today’s evidence for familial breakdown is rooted...
...light. I decided that right after class got out, I would go home a different way. I would go home the way she went home. Then, somehow I would talk to her. I would make my move.Katie’s house was about half a mile away down Olden Road. I started down the path at a quick pace. I was maybe a hundred feet in front of Katie. I wanted to put some distance between me and Katie, so that it didn’t look like I was stalking her or something. Then, gradually, so very gradually...
...great national rehab won't be easy. But it wasn't only in olden times that Americans have coped with breathtaking flux and successfully undertaken dramatic change. In fact, we've just done it. During the era recently ended, we adapted to hundreds of TV channels and multiple phone companies and airlines that arise and disappear as fast as strip-mall stores. Women have come close to achieving real equality; being gay has become astoundingly public and unremarkable. And speaking of shaking off addictions, half again as many of us smoked cigarettes in the early '80s. We watched (and helped...
...different colors. A connectome’s map is built by developing pictures of individual slices of nerves, and combining them to form a larger image of a passageway, like taking slices of a pipe and putting them back together. “Picture a radio in the olden days that is full of wires soldered together,” Sanes says. “Imagine slicing it into slices one millimeter thick. With each slice you can see a little shred of each part...You need to put them together to figure out the whole wiring diagram...
...Club) is opening an old-fashioned barbershop in downtown New York City. An extension of the barbershop in the back of the clothing store, FSC-Barber now has its own home in the West Village (5 Horatio Street; 212-929-3917). It aims to recreate the atmosphere of the olden days, when men would gather daily at the local barbershop to hang out and discuss sports and politics. FSC-Barber offers hair cuts and shaves complete with hot towels and a straight-edge razor, but just to show it's got a modern edge, it also offers special treatments like...