Word: pleasants
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...impressionistic passage from his 1930 novel The 42nd Parallel, John Dos Passos ’16 writes bitterly: “and all the pleasant contacts will be useful in Later Life say hello pleasantly to everybody crossing the yard/ sit looking out into the twilight of the pleasantest four years of your life/ grow cold with culture like a cup of tea forgotten between an incenseburner and a volume of Oscar Wilde.” Cambridge Octobers are cold enough. A chilly maturity will not improve them; a warm abandon will...
...meats, with the homemade pico de gallo available at the salad bar. The freshness of the tomatoes, bite of the onions and astringency of the vinegar help somewhat to cut the relentless richness of the meat. Not all of the skewers are equally desirable, however. Pork loin is pleasant, although the meat should have been cooked a little more for my taste. (The prospect of tapeworm can put a damper on even the most charming dinner.) The lamb is inconsistent—some slices are fine, others are just plain gristly and tougher than an Ec10 midterm...
...first time around wasn’t all that pleasant,” Farmer writes in an e-mail. “I mean, I laughed, I cried, and all that. But it’s very strange to be the topic of a book (I’m not even dead yet! I’m 43 years old!). And although the facts seemed right, and he caught wonderful things that I’d forgotten in the mad swirl of everyday work, I didn’t savor the book on round one. It scared...
Applying his aesthetic eye and artistic temperament, which he developed from his painter mother, Phelan also pays attention to how lighting enhances his home environment. He used to have a lighted topiary for the fireplace that “died tragically,” but maintains a pleasant atmosphere with lamps. “At night I have soft lights and it’s cozy like a bistro...
Students returning to Cambridge after the long months of summer have come to expect an array of pleasant novelties waiting for them—from renovated rooms and dining halls to the flush green lawns of the Yard in autumn. This month, though, students were greeted by a stark void in their culinary lives: the Chick-Fil-A franchise, last seen standing proudly in the Science Center’s Greenhouse, silently disappeared from Harvard’s campus some time after Commencement. It will be missed...