Word: pursuit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Pulitzer Prize. "This is the stuff of miracles," she says. "Not even my publisher knew I was in the running." Lahiri, whose parents are from India, was born in London and raised in Rhode Island. Currently, she lives in New York and is working on a novel, a pursuit she was forced to suspend last week to contend with the flood of flower deliveries and phone calls. "I'm very impressed with the makers of my answering machine," she says. "I still can't believe it didn't break...
...textual analysis is interspersed with anecdotes ("Richard Burton once peed in his armor, and the tinkle made the other actors giggle!"). Students without speaking parts play music that would make old Will squirm: Aegeon's plea for a stay of execution is accompanied by the Beatles' Help!, and the pursuit of a portly servant is enlivened with Queen's Fat Bottomed Girls. An overhead video shows the screaming crowds in Godzilla as the actors chase Antipholus around the classroom. "Shakespeare's fun," Esquith says. "And they learn tons of vocabulary...
...centuries, adventurers have pursued excitement in the arenas of treasure hunting, big game hunting and deep-sea exploring. However, one first-year has taken up another noble pursuit. Jonathan M. Guberman '03 of Canaday F searches for sins. It started about one month before winter break, when Guberman was crossing the hall to hang out with the guys. He noticed the word "greed" written in faint orange marker on the doorjamb. He asked his neighbors about the word, but they knew nothing beyond that it had been there for a while. Guberman thought nothing of it and continued with...
Throughout his university years, Putin was ever in pursuit of his KGB dream. Judo had made him determined, resolute, hardworking, and he put those talents to work earning solid grades. "If you told him what he had to do, he learned it," says Polokhov. Putin had little time for social life and never joined the sportsmen's friendly drinking. Recalls Polokhov: "I think he was really born to work...
...Acting President since New Year's Eve, when Yeltsin's resignation effectively handed him election victory, Putin has not quailed or faltered in pursuit of victory in Chechnya. When Western officials complain about human-rights abuses, he politely but firmly explains that they do not understand the problem. "Chechnya," says Robert Service, a lecturer at Oxford University and author of an upcoming biography of Lenin, "is the military tip of a general political campaign against the license enjoyed by non-Russian republics to produce a firmly unified political system again...