Word: pleasanter
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Beautiful weather and a weak opponent made for a very pleasant Saturday afternoon for the Harvard men’s soccer team. The Crimson (5-3, 2-0 Ivy) cruised to a 2-0 victory against Cornell with goals from seniors Mike Fucito and John Stamatis.The win sends Harvard into next weekend’s showdown at defending Ivy champion Brown undefeated in league play.“It’s a tough one mentally, coming off the rivalry game against Yale and then having the game against Brown coming up next week,” Harvard coach Jamie...
...Cannon on a bench outside the Hair Design Team salon in Troy, where she was taking a smoking break between customers. It was a pleasant afternoon, and from where she sat, the green hills of northeast Missouri - Mark Twain country - rolled gently in every direction. A lifelong resident of Lincoln County, Cannon has seen those hills stitched with new roads and dotted with parking lots, but not so much that she can't still spy open fields in the distance...
...love to rip apart English professor James Wood’s distilled volume of literary wisdom with a series of detached, postmodern, snarling riffs. But I can’t. “How Fiction Works” is just too pleasant a read. With a soft, avuncular tone, Wood sets out to investigate a fundamental question—how authors utilize both verisimilitude and artifice to invoke the real—by surveying a series of writing fundamentals. He weaves in and out of novels and ideas through a series of thought-stanzas until reaching his goal: a satisfying...
...turn back to true Kings of Leon form. Yet something’s still off. It all sounds a bit too grandiose and cleaned up. “Only by the Night” is still a far cry from awful, though. Most of the songs are pleasant enough; it’s just that save for a few, nothing stands out. It’s when compared with the rest of Kings of Leon’s corpus that “Night” really falls short. It’s like getting Southern Comfort when you ordered...
...someone really unique and gifted in what we were doing,” Chase Russel ’09 says. After realizing her talents, Cranston suggested that they write a linked-verse poem together, which ultimately extended for 36 verses. “It was a very unique and pleasant experience,” says Cranston. “It was the first time I ever had a student who was capable of doing that.” Coman’s passion for haiku stemmed from a general interest in writing poetry. “Before writing haiku...