Word: pointedness
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Yielding the lead in space exploration to other nations doesn’t just look bad on television—it also has serious long-term repercussions for the nation. Space exploration has long been the source of many of the nation’s most capable engineers and scientists...
Suddenly, Nick’s wry observations are funny. Often relegated to high school English reading lists, “Gatsby” has always been popular—but not necessarily understood. What is inevitably lost in the commotion of the American dream, unrequited love, and two tragic deaths...
Los Campesinos! have never lived up to the carefree cheerfulness their exclamation-pointed name would seem to imply. On the contrary, their first two albums traded in a heightened teenage angst that would have bordered on gloomy were it not for the relentlessly cheerful twee pop sound enveloping it.
Delaney-Smith pointed out that Harvard had won the title before, even with early losses in conference play, clearly downplaying the heartbreaking 45-44 loss to Dartmouth just two weeks ago.
You might think passengers taking off or landing at Charles de Gaulle Airport would feel unsettled seeing a supersonic Concorde jet mounted on a steel frame alongside the runway, with its needle-like beak pointed upward in take-off position. After all, just such a Concorde plane crashed in a...