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Have you ever tried to read in the Thompson Room? More formal in feel than Ticknor Lounge, this room on the first floor of the Barker Center is perhaps the most plush and lush location where one can study in the College. I brought my work there a few weeks ago. It was largely that luxury that kept me from getting anything done...
...this quote, and its plush context, that kept me from my tutorial work. From the depths of my wonderful chair I had looked up to read that, “A good name is rather to be chosen/than great riches/and loving favour/rather than silver and gold.” The quote’s cliché, I thought, and worse, it’s repetitious...
Gomes, who is Plummer professor of Christian morals and Pusey minister in the Memorial Church, ushers me into his cozy Mem Church office and waves me toward the plush couch. He settles himself in the chair opposite me, calmly folds his hands in his lap and fixes me with a pensive gaze. I try my best to look studious and upstanding as I explain to him my situation. I’m writing a personal narrative, I begin. Pause. Well, I don’t really understand religion, I admit. Sometimes, I even have a hard time relating to very...
...Glynn ’03 says that her creation in faux-fur, “Nausea,” which consists of nine yards of white plush fabric draped over chicken wire, is a condemnation of “sickeningly excessive sentimentality.” The column, which resembles a pile of vomited intestines, is more likely to revolt the viewer than evoke the “warm and fuzzy” emotions associated with its fabric...
...twisty four-hour drive to Issyk-Kul, a 170 km-long lake in the mountains of northeastern Kyrgyzstan. In Soviet times, despite being the site of secret torpedo tests, Issyk-Kul was a famed R. and R. spot for party cadres in search of pampering at the area's plush hotels and sanitoriums...