Word: puns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, even when the news is not local, not about Harvard, it is still equally important. Yet if students don't make a habit of keeping up with what's going on in their own front Yard--pun intended--there is little reason to hope they will keep up on events of interest to others, either nationally or internationally...
...back them up. Though currently chair of the Department of Culture and Communication at NYC he's taught in elementary and secondary schools. And the twenty books he's written include studies of both children and education. "The end of education" turns out to be a rather ominous pun: Postman believes that unless the educational system can decide on an "end," it will...
...etched on many of the pre-World War II Berlin stories, as well as others written during the '40s and '50s after he immigrated to the U.S. And woe to the poseur whose influence is based solely on personality. From Spring in Fialta: "Lean and arrogant, with some poisonous pun ever ready to fork out and quiver at you, and with a strange look of expectancy in his dull brown veiled eyes, this false wag had, I daresay, an irresistible effect on small rodents...
...operetta is a pre-season treat for G&S fans and a delightful introduction for neophytes. Think of it as a Gilbert and Sullivan sound-bite: 45 minutes of what has brought audiences back for well over a century. Bellow "God Save the Queen," thrill to the pun-ny patter, roll your eyes at the ending and still make it home in time for the post-trial wrap-up shows...
This being Harvard, the majority of us stumble back to our rooms with a possible detour to Noke's. We feel a sense of frustration and boredom at another wasted night (no pun intended) and are left with the overwhelming realization that the Grille is essentially, as one Harvard student put it, a "necessary evil...