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...does awkward have an antithesis? This is perhaps the most puzzling aspect of this generation-defining term. Awkward has no real antonym—the words that come closest, from “cool” to “pleasant?? all fall somehow short. Indeed, in our generation’s frenzied opposition to awkwardness, we have become the very thing we so desperately sought to avoid. Instead of risking mispronouncing our roommate’s name, we spend three years coming up with inventive terms of endearment. Rather than call someone, we send text messages that...
...would be a better word) by Anna M. Resnick ’09, and a full orchestra (this time around, under the direction of Eric W. Lin ’09, who is also a Crimson Arts staff writer). This combination creates a sensory overload that is usually quite pleasant??it’s hard to get bored when there’s so much to look at—as well as an ambience of old-fashioned theatricality...
...SSNE got me thinking. If New England really hates America so much, it should just leave. Honestly, I think America could live without Connecticut, Rhode Island (not actually an island), Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont. It is rather unfortunate Maine would have to go—they seem pleasant??but as a nation, we could recover...
...satellites. The plan as it stands now proposes to “sink” a portion of the road (dashed on the map) and create an aesthetically pleasing park-like public space sloping from campus buildings down to the riverbank. This would make living in Allston more aesthetically pleasant??having a highway out one’s window is rarely appealing—but more importantly it would make the Allston Houses feel physically closer to Cambridge for pedestrians. As anyone who has made a late night trek to or from the Quad in the dead...
...George Bernard Shaw’s play “You Never Can Tell.” The play, which runs from Nov. 10-18 at the Loeb Experimental Theatre—and is often called the pleasantest of Shaw’s volume of “Plays Pleasant??—centers on the return of a mother and her three children to their homeland, after having left 18 years earlier because of the mother’s desire to avoid her husband. Their return is prompted by the mother’s desire...