Word: pit
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Balboni however did have good news for Square pedestrians and Harvard students. The area between the Store 24 and the temporary station will, as of December, completely take place underground. On the other hand, the major obstruction in the Square--the huge pit between Johnston Gate and the Cambridge Common--will remain open "for an indefinite period...
Balboni however did have good news for Square pedestrians and Harvard students. The area between the Store 24 and the temporary station will, as of December, completely take place underground. On the other hand, the major obstruction in the Square--the huge pit between Johnston Gate and the Cambridge Common--will remain open "for an indefinite period...
...will all take time," Balboni explains as he stares down into the pit where incoming and outgoing tunnels will eventually travel. He excitedly discusses the underground bus tunnel that will be constructed above the subway tunnel. The 80 men working in the pit below look, from 100 ft. above, like beetles scurrying...
...their most impressionable, Sunday school programs sometimes degenerate into weekend playpens whose inmates kill time filling in biblical coloring books. Offering "one cheer for the 200-year-old Sunday school," Church Historian Martin Marty describes the prevalent stereotype, parents who drop their children off for a "weekly spiritual pit stop...
Erwartung's nightmare ambiguities can have a haunting power. The Santa Fe production makes them rather tame, except in the astringent sonorities arising from the orchestra pit. Soprano Nancy Shade, as the woman, has command of Schoenberg's difficult idiom, but her voice lacks the dramatic weight for a role that, as Musicologist Wilfrid Mellers describes it, is essentially "Isolde in nervous disintegration...