Word: picnics
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...storm. The house may survivethis tempest, but no such luck forStephen King’s name, written in a shinytypeface—it seems to be sinking into theocean. So we know there’s a storm and anisland—I guess the mystery lies with theorange picnic basket that somehow alsosurvives the storm.Memory, by Philippe GrimbertA black and white photograph depictsa mystery person, pail in hand, walkingaway from the potential reader over acovered bridge towards a sunny day. Thebook’s cover offers extensive metaphoricalpossibilities: the light at the end ofthe tunnel! Traversing the bridge...
...birth of the Undergraduate Council (UC), out of the ashes of its predecessor, the Student Assembly—an organization among whose accomplishments were securing free toilet paper in the River houses, a (failed) rock concert, and, at one point, “a poorly attended spring picnic.” Now, Professor Dowling is set to head a new committee with a similar name (it’s being called Dowling II) to review the current, but still flawed, student government: the UC. Perhaps, some things never do change. And if they do change, it’s typically...
...thought of a weekend office picnic, for example, sounds tedious compared with a trip to the spa, but fun compared with working overtime on a Sunday. But these comparisons have little bearing on our actual experience of the picnic because once we arrive and start chatting with colleagues or playing softball, the experience draws our attention away from the alternatives. "The kinds of comparisons we're making when we're imagining the future aren't the kinds we make when we get there," Gilbert says...
...Missouri's primary by a 17-point margin--even as Obama continued to sweep black churchgoers. Clinton has also dominated among Catholics. Quietly but steadily, the Clinton camp has built networks of religious supporters and reintroduced Clinton to them as someone who knows her way around a church picnic. And at the last Democratic debate, she slipped in a religious reference, criticizing immigration laws that would have "criminalized the Good Samaritan and Jesus Christ...
...Goodwin ’08 is a History and Literature concentrator in Eliot House. Her ideal date is a picnic in the woods...