Word: pursuits
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Geren has asked the Deputy Secretary of Defense to adjudicate the opposing views of the IG and the Army. Representative Slaughter, who has made the pursuit of dodgy body armor a personal crusade - both IG audits were conducted at her request - said she was waiting for more potentially devastating audits to come. "We're not done yet," she says...
...detail, for capturing in prose the slightest shift in light or in a character's mood was unmatched. It was not the most fashionable of gifts. While his contemporaries practiced the rock-ribbed realism of Hemingway and Carver or the high-concept contraptions of the metafictionists, Updike conducted his pursuit of eloquence and wit almost alone. Ironically, it was sometimes held against him, and he was tagged a lightweight. (See the top 10 fiction books...
...behind that book stand is still solid,” O’Brien said. “My business plan was in three years to have six tables and 15 to 20 low-income homeless people working there, spread throughout Cambridge and Boston.”In his pursuit of public service, O’Brien even became ordained as a minister online (he signed the flyer he handed out in front of City Hall “Rev. Kenneth A. O’Brien”). He explained that this designation allows him to feed runaway teenagers without...
...comparisons between Wyeth and other regionalist/realists of the period—Winslow Homer, Norman Rockwell—the best is to Edward Hopper. As the abstract painter Mark Rothko put it, “Wyeth is about the pursuit of strangeness, but he is not whole, as Hopper is whole.” I can accept that Wyeth is perhaps not the best of his contemporaries. But that they passed him by entirely? Never...
...Even before this fall, trivia has held a constant presence in Schleicher’s life throughout his undergraduate years. Troy C. Murrell ’09, who met Schleicher when the two were freshmen, said that they used to do New York Times crossword puzzles and play Trivial Pursuit. Last summer, they took a team to trivia night at Charlie’s Kitchen...