Word: remarkable
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...He’s universally respected and liked,” says Adam M. Johnson ’02, a council veteran. “I’ve never heard anyone make a disparaging remark about him personally or the job he’s done as president...
...single most familiar remark made by an African-American about Harvard is undoubtedly that made by W.E.B. Du Bois, Class of 1890. “I was in Harvard, but not of it,” he wrote. One wonders what Du Bois, who received his doctorate from the University in 1896, would have said about the publication almost a century later of Blacks at Harvard, a book documenting the history of African-American experiences at Harvard and Radcliffe. Du Bois might ask, as others have, why it took so long for such a collection to appear and why, when...
...terrorism is the first war you can access from your desk. Whenever a civilian - that is, a non-news person - comes into my office, they always remark on the television next to my desk. But everyone I know in the media business has a TV in his or her office - so it's easy to forget that this is an anomaly for most Americans. They can't watch CNN during the day even if they want...
Yagan quickly qualifies this remark, however, by noting that “various agents and publishing companies have approached us to us to do physical print versions of the sparknotes and we have been considering that in terms of finding other distribution outlets for our product. It is just good business.” Bryant G. Mathews ‘02 speculates that if Sparknotes did branch out into book form “it would lose its distinctive character.” Yagan prefers to emphazise that there is a viable demographic for “an intelligent study...
...which tells of a trip to the underworld reminiscent of the Western epic traditions. There was also a special treat for Vergilians in the audience as Ferry read a passage from his yet to be completed and published translation of the Georgics. Ferry premised this selection with the humorous remark that Virgil must have read Paradise Lost, since the Georgics as he reads them constitute in some respects a work about men’s struggling through life by the sweat of their brow, “after the fall...