Word: ponderance
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...didn’t always like the sound of Bob Dylan’s voice, but I always loved his songs. When I was thirteen, beginning to write poetry, ponder rebellion and discover my parents’ music, I stumbled on a miracle. My dad pulled out a Judy Collins album of songs from the early sixties-—about half of which were Dylan covers—and stuck it on the dusty record player with the glee anyone feels at finding a much-beloved album. He didn’t know that by doing...
...have class at 10 a.m. Therefore, Mom thinks that it’s perfectly logical to engage in a nice chat at an hour when I can barely open my eyes, let alone ponder my estimated time of arrival at Penn Station when I go home for Thanksgiving, four weeks from...
Heading to the ECAC Championships in Flushing Meadows, N.Y., the two-time defending champion Harvard men’s tennis team had much to ponder. The departure of last year’s glut of senior talent had left the Crimson inexperienced and, in recent weeks, seemingly uninspired...
...horrified. He was supposed to ponder the tension between East and West in modern Japan, the ever-present shadows of the past in sprawling Kyoto, the sense of both fascination and alienation in a foreign land or just how a clump of white sand is supposed to signify mankind’s insignificance in the cosmos. How was stalking Japanese women supposed to demonstrate his thoughtfulness, maturity, and fitness for acceptance to an Ivy League college?! Like hell...
Harvard students aren’t the most communal animals to begin with, so it’s scary to ponder how isolated we might become if the lure of cable television sat in our bedrooms next to Instant Messenger and Snood. Cable television need not be an isolating force; instead, the presence of cable televisions in house common spaces and living rooms brings otherwise isolated students out of their rooms and into contact with each other. And this is no small accomplishment, considering that there are only a few things that routinely pull students from their bedrooms, namely, food...