Word: phrase
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Shinagel recommended that the phrase “extention studies” be removed from the degrees of future Extension School graduates at yesterday’s meeting of the Faculty Council—the highest governing body of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
Stringent censorship policies against “objectionable” content stunted the Boston arts scene for much of the last two centuries. The phrase “Banned in Boston” became a joke among the cultural elite, who observed that censorship in Boston meant almost guaranteed success in the rest of the country...
...full of slapstick desperation. The pacing poet is waiting for his latest book to come out, and he expects the worst. The narrator declares early on that it’s “National I Hate Myself and Want to Die Day,” a phrase that is very funny in the context of the poem, although it jars with the serious preoccupations of the rest of the volume...
...flutes.Perhaps most impressive was the orchestra’s ability to avoid the maudlin bombast typically endemic of Wagner. From the almost minimalist interchange between the orchestra’s components to the gorgeous emotion evident on the performers’ faces during the mountainous crescendos, no musical phrase was left incomplete, and no thought left unfinished. Yannatos and HRO exhibited a striking ability to rein themselves in, a habit that not only augmented the more fragile tonalities of the piece but which would also continue throughout the night as a recurring strength of the performance.Yannatos left the stage after...
...Daniel Petrocelli. But Skilling's attitude toward prosecutor Sean Berkowitz - another Harvard man himself - was often dismissive; he all but said the government's guy was not smart enough to understand the company's financial charts. Later, perhaps fearing he was coming across as pompous, he stumbled over the phrase "net worth." "Is it net wealth?" he asked...