Word: placide
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...captain of the United States Under-17 and Under-18 squads, now represents one of the top 22 players under age 20 in the nation, as judged by USA Hockey. His selection was based on his performance in the National Junior Evaluation Camp, held in June in Lake Placid, N.Y., as well as his contributions during the opening stages of Harvard men’s hockey team’s campaign. Through the first 12 games of the Crimson’s season, Fraser has posted five points, good enough for fourth on the team. —THE CRIMSON...
Every August, USA Hockey National selects a team of approximately 40 players from around the country to participate in the National Junior Evaluation Camp, held in Lake Placid, N.Y. Standouts earn a chance to be called back in December to represent the United States at the International Ice Hockey Federation World Junior Championship...
...They insist that the prospects for their congressional candidates in November's midterms have never been as bad as advertised and are getting better by the day. Those are party operatives and political savants whose job it is to anticipate trouble. But much of the time they seem so placid, you wonder whether they know something...
...error occurred while processing this directive] and the psychological effects of technological, social or environmental developments." A mouthful, but Ballard has earned every word of it. In 20 novels and 20 story collections over his half-century as a writer, he has created an anti-utopian gulag of ostensibly placid communities - island resorts, luxury apartment towers, high-tech research parks - where civility deteriorates and darkness rises. In Kingdom Come, his latest and perhaps most unsettling work yet, Ballard exposes a particularly nasty cesspool of social pathology: the shopping mall. First, a clarification. Confusingly, Ballard is perhaps best known for Empire...
...removed compositional sensibility, outliers such as the jaunty, Eurythmics-lite “The Equalizer” and the aching “When No One Cares” eliminate fears of redundancy.Ultimately, while this may be an album better suited to our friend winter—its placid textures embracing days and nights in—it stands as one of the most compositionally and emotionally interesting releases of the summer.Thom Yorke: “The Eraser”Much digital ink has been spilled about Thom Yorke’s surprise solo album, “The Eraser...