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...don’t use the phrase the ‘Holocaust’ because I don’t believe in the marketing approach of the ‘Holocaust,’” he said. “But I went into more detail about the individual aspects of the Nazi atrocities against the Jews and used original sources...
...love irresolution because it has energy,” he had said in the interview. “The phrase for me breaks intuitively...
...recent comments, in addition to the Allston planning and curricular review, have been discussed openly and frequently in recent months at GSC meetings. Advanced graduate students certainly have experienced “life under Summers’ leadership for four years,” and using the phrase “hearsay and anecdotal evidence” to cheapen the well-informed and thoughtful opinions of the graduate student body was unhelpful...
...common phrase heard around TIME's editorial offices in London, especially late on Saturday nights when we were frantically trying to close the magazine, was: "Ask Penny." Penny Campbell, who died unexpectedly last week, was our very own walking encyclopedia. Whatever information you needed - whether it was pointers on an arcane aspect of TIME style, the current status of some attempted coup or the latest scrap of office gossip - Penny knew. And she would happily tell you, too, over a steaming cup of organic Earl Grey tea and a chocolate biscuit. In Hong Kong, where Penny was an associate editor...
Whatever else the internet has done for or to the English language, it has popularized a very useful phrase that I will now invoke: spoiler alert. If you want to get the full effect of Kazuo Ishiguro's chilling, intensely moving novel Never Let Me Go (Knopf; 288 pages), read no further than the end of this paragraph. Never Let Me Go is the story of three people--Kathy, Tommy and Ruth--who at first appear to be ordinary children attending an exclusive and indefinably creepy but otherwise ordinary English boarding school. The only other thing you need to know...