Word: pits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Shakespeare's day, "groundlings" referred to the unruly rabble who crowded into the front pit of the Globe Theater. In Groundlings, author Seth Harrington '00 accuses their modern-day equivalents of living vicariously and irresponsibly through the actors' lives. It's a transgression that must be punished: over the course of this one-act play, Shakespeare's Hamlet finally receives the opportunity to get revenge upon its audience...
...ideal location for an event of this magnitude. The main stage was set up in front of the old City hall, and fans filled in the layers of steps that descend to the building and around the stage. That means the stage was down below in a pit, and fans were left far above fighting for a place...
...forge a new peace, a real peace, this elusive trust must be built anew. But when the media serves only to pit two sides against one another instead of offering balanced information and fair reporting, it serves only to fuel prejudice, the true enemy of peace, trust and understanding...
Only an administration with a weak commitment to ethnic studies would accommodate one student group by ignoring another, thereby attempting to pit students against each other. Afro-American studies at Harvard is very strong; with this new junior faculty position I hope to see the beginnings of an equally strong Asian-American program. But where are Latinos left? Have we no place? We are supposed to be the largest minority group within the United States come the 21st century, yet our presence has been all but ignored by the Harvard administration...
...snakes, which have catlike eyes). That flickering forked tongue, for example, loathsome as it may seem, actually gives the snake the chemical equivalent of stereoscopic vision; by responding to the relative number of odors on either side of the tongue, the snake can pinpoint potential prey, mates or enemies. Pit vipers, for their part, are equipped with keen infrared sensors near their nostrils, so even if blinded, they can strike a mouse several feet away simply by detecting its body heat...