Word: placing
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...drinking the coffee, L. noted that while it was bold and consistent in flavor, the taste itself was unappealing. E. found the drink a little harsh for her taste, and thought the drink exemplified everything she was wary about concerning coffee in the first place...
...Classical Art and Archaeology. “There are many different ways of looking at objects, from an art historian’s point of view to an anthropologist’s point of view, and we want the students to see the museum not as just an aesthetic place, but as something they can shape themselves.”The course strives to allow freshmen to make a connection with the Harvard Art Museum so that they see the institution as an integral part of their time at Harvard, and, according to Ebbinghaus, not just...
...someone a Nazi is evidence of the evil of banality), the idiots bearing assault rifles at presidential events. As the lunatics took over the asylum, the President's poll ratings dropped, and the chances for a truly bipartisan health-care-reform effort vanished, if they existed in the first place. Consequently, we have had a back-to-school fusillade of advice for the President from my columnizing peers - and an effusion of premature crowing from conservatives about the collapse of the Obama presidency...
...connection to Aung San Suu Kyi - the democracy icon known in Burma simply as the Lady, who in August was sentenced to 11/2 years of house arrest - that had led me to the Shwe Zedi monastery in the first place. Located in the crumbling Indian Ocean port of Sittwe, Shwe Zedi was the monastery of U Ottama, a revered monk whose pacifist resistance against the colonial British inspired independence hero Aung San, father of Suu Kyi. In 2002, this was one of the few places the Nobel Peace Prize winner visited between stints of house arrest, and she called...
...wife is an energetic and quirky figure who gives inspirational talks and calls herself a "life composer." In a book she wrote called Very Strange Things I've Encountered, she said her soul visited Venus on a triangular-shaped UFO. "It was a very beautiful place and it was really green," she wrote...