Word: quieter
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Harvard’s neighbors near Linnaean St. may be interested in “a more stable and more mature population that may be a bit quieter at night,” he told the commission, while the shift might also improve the quality of life “for students who use ‘quadding’ as a verb...
...various mental states. For comparison, he used undergraduates who had had no experience with meditation but got a crash course in the basic techniques. During the generation of pure compassion, a standard Buddhist meditation technique, brain regions that keep track of what is self and what is other became quieter, the fMRI showed, as if the subjects--experienced meditators as well as novices--opened their minds and hearts to others...
...minx, Henson's nymphs and Laing's flying bride have been among the most reproduced images in Australian art. Crombie helped define the moment, co-curating 1990's "Twenty Contemporary Australian Photographers: From the Hallmark Cards Australian Photographic Collection," and 17 years later the medium she returns to is quieter and less declarative. Walking through "Light Sensitive" at the Ian Potter Centre, one could be forgiven for thinking that the era of the defining image has passed. Pictures prefer to slink from easy definition: neither one thing nor the other. Rather than being a cop-out, though, it's perhaps...
Rudenstine, a former Princeton provost, led Harvard in a quieter era, but he likewise encountered pitfalls as president. He took a leave of absence for “fatigue” at the end of 1994, and his last semester in office in the spring of 2001 was rocked by a 21-day sit-in by student labor activists who occupied Mass. Hall...
...relationships, serves as a nice lead into the soft yet driving track “Jesus Christ.” The song sounds like a peaceful yet cynical prayer. The chorus, like on the first track, experiments with the bending of guitar chords and a wavering vocal line. This quieter track marks a turn in the album, which becomes pointedly louder and much angrier. “Degausser” reestablishes Brand New as the champions of the artfully screamed chorus, and “Limousine” strikes a fine balance between eerie melody and seething rage. The simple...