Word: sad
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...minutes ago?" he was all smiles and familiar reassurances. But when I asked for specifics, they were wrong. That was it. He was confabulating. And he had almost no short-term memory. I wouldn't stand a chance going up against the nursing-home proponents. It was a sad realization - in those few words, a little chat about things of no real consequence, this fine American of 75 years had lost his right to self-determination. He was to be consigned, in his own eyes at least, to the rest of his life in prison. For not remembering...
...very most, our faculty features a handful of zany libertarians and communitarians—all no doubt collegial, cooperative folks.Professor of government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 might explain a bit of collective hesitancy amongst the faculty to rejoin the revolutionary party after a period of sad separation; 1991 found him saying he was “glad to see [Marxism] dead and gone” and planning “to keep a careful watch to stomp on it” should it reawaken. What exactly this ‘stomping’ might constitute remains unclear...
...ultimate Chinese American dish because it is fried, it is chicken, and it is sweet—all things that Americans love. THC: Is the prevalence of Chinese restaurants in some ways a good thing, because it means that the culture is flourishing? Or is it more of a sad phenomenon because it represents selling out—sacrificing authenticity to become part of the American capitalistic market? JL: Well the first question is: What is authenticity? Authenticity is a function of time and place, so what’s really interesting is that American Chinese food has become...
...biography points out, he was born in Russia. And though the fact of his birth does not make him a “Russian writer,” the utmost seriousness with which he approaches literature, very clearly on display in his debut novel, “All the Sad Young Literary Men,” does establish him as a writer in the Russian model. It is not that Gessen sees no room for levity in “Literary Men”—rest assured, there are plenty of the witticisms that make reading his literary...
...from University Hall across the Yard to Mass. Hall. Until 2007, the top two floors of the building held approximately two-dozen first-year students, but the dorm was taken offline for the 2007-2008 academic year. The closing of the doors of Mass. Hall to freshmen was a sad retreat from a tradition that held great symbolic value. For practical reasons, the use of Mass. Hall as a freshman dorm was purely positive: It increased the amount of students able to live on Harvard Yard without resorting to crowding or stuffing even more freshmen into Claverly Hall or Apley...