Word: sections
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...wind, rain, and sweat. Halfway through the race, participants reached the “Wellesley Scream Tunnel”—the stretch of the course that runs past the all-women’s Wellesley College. Every year, Wellesley students line up along this section of the course to scream and cheer while holding up signs...
...unconventional CEO, if ever he cared to take the title. Daily menus and product development is more and more solely in the hands of Fred Maquair, his associate and old friend of almost two decades. After the first few restaurants opened, Cojean bought a large kitchen in an industrial section of the Left Bank, where the food for the day is prepared then delivered to the restaurants. His employees, all young and outfitted in powder blue T-shirts, are hardly the traditional French model of food industry professionals and more like a typical American chain waitstaff: enthusiastically working...
...dull. The book ends with an epilogue, which neatly ties up all the points made in the nine lengthy chapters that precede it and connects current feelings on the economic role of the federal government to those first expressed during the Reconstruction. Yet the eloquence of the section casts doubt on the existence on the rest of “West from Appomattox”: why read 340 repetitive pages when you can just read the epilogue...
...Lima (fictional stand-ins for Bolaño and his friend Mario Santiago), as they seek to escape the violence that haunts them and to find a ghost from the past. García Madero’s narrative gives way to the novel’s sprawling central section, a fragmented collection of testimonies in which Bolaño effortlessly ventriloquizes scores of characters whose stories ostensibly concern Belano and Lima, but really create a stunning portrait of an aging generation burdened by lost love, crushed ideals, and the specter of violence.From the beginning, it’s clear...
...freshman spring, I failed to attend lecture or section in two classes for 8 weeks. Every night, I would promise myself that I would go the next morning, but when the time came to get out of bed, I simply couldn’t. Inevitably, as I fell further and further behind, it became impossible to catch up on my own; I was completely paralyzed by feelings of failure and inadequacy. Most of all, I didn’t want anyone to know, so I pretended, even to myself, that I wasn’t depressed and everything was fine...