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True to his guileless prose, Schulze is "not inventing any of it." Yet it would be quite reductive to label his language as pure Americana. It is American in that it is stripped-down, bare of many Old World pretensions, but Simple Stories departs from our modern literary tradition in its lack of sensationalism, redeeming, that Schulze's unadorned language is unadulterated by derogatory shock filler...

Author: By Teri Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tales of an American German in Altenburg | 4/14/2000 | See Source »

Such an understanding could be achieved tomorrow by some bright graduate student, or it could just as easily take another century or so. It may be accomplished by pure mathematical deduction from some fundamental new physical principle that just happens to occur to someone, but it is more likely to need the inspiration of new experimental discoveries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will We Have A Final Theory Of Everything? | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

...existence, of life elsewhere in the universe. As an optimist by temperament and as a betting man, I allow that certain features of the natural world would lead me to place my chips on yes if someone forced me to wager. But I also know the difference between a pure flutter based on hope and a smart play based on genuine probabilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will We Figure Out How Life Began? | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

...frightening women and young girls into fits." During this time, the club expanded so much that the College gave the organization a room in Holworthy Hall to serve as a library. Even with this success, change was still in the air, and the club evolved from mock trial to pure drama in 1844 with the presentation of "Bombastes Furioso" by Lemuel Hayward in Hollis. According to the catalogue, by 1849, the metamorphosis was complete and the society moved into a space in the north entry of Stoughton Hall. The 1850s and 1860s featured seven or eight shows a season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: A Tumultuous History | 4/6/2000 | See Source »

...quality of British food, which set me to thinking. I quite like British food if cooked well. Most people, however, have rarely experienced it done well, only well done. Still, I can appreciate a culinary evaluation of food where one argues that a particular item just tastes bad, pure and simple. But the crux of my opponents' arguments was often that British food is bad because it involves eating the kidneys and other internal organs. By that token, strike out French food as being a gastronomic delight. Foie gras? Shock, horror...

Author: By Daryl Sng, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Endpaper: Veins in My Teeth | 4/6/2000 | See Source »

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