Word: shade
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...verbal meanderings are partly a reflection of a mind that sees complexity in almost every issue. The son of a diplomat, educated partly in boarding schools in Europe, Kerry learned to look at current affairs from multiple perspectives. Says an adviser: "It's not like he's trying to shade the truth. He overintellectualizes his explanations." Asked by TIME in a March interview whether the Iraq war would be worth the costs if no weapons of mass destruction were ever found, Kerry replied, "No, I think you can still--wait, no. You can't--that's not a fair question...
...white wedding dress has been a beloved Western tradition for more than 150 years, and we have Queen Victoria to thank for it. Donning the symbolic shade of purity has been de rigueur ever since she came down the aisle in 1840 in a creamy white satin gown trailing an 18-ft. train. Before that, royal brides wore mostly red or silver, and commoners opted for elegant dresses in floral patterns or colors. But brides, grooms and marrying mores have changed. Women tie the knot later in life (at about 27, in contrast to 22 a generation ago), and more...
Author Pamela A. Thomas-Graham ’85, whose day job is chief executive officer of CNBC, first introduced readers to Chase in A Darker Shade of Crimson (1998), and she brought Nikki back for an encore performance in Blue Blood (1999). In Thomas-Graham’s latest novel, Orange Crushed, (released next month) an older, wiser Nikki leaves her Cambridge stomping ground to investigate a possible murder at Princeton University. The setting offers a perfect opportunity for Thomas-Graham to contrast her alma mater’s virtues with the New Jersey safety school?...
Harvard must be a light bulb for pulp fiction moths. Over the years, Erich Segal’s Love Story, Pam Thomas-Brown’s A Darker Shade of Crimson, Jane Harvard’s The Student Body and hundreds of other not-quite-Faulkner caliber books have been set at Harvard. Now Carlotta Carlyle, the red-headed, fast-talking Boston detective and long-running serial mystery protagonist, is walking the campus beat...
...when the festivities were supposed to begin—the kids were busy running around the field playing various sorts of games. In contrast, the men of the Crimson seemed a bit out of it—looking quite tired relaxing in the shade after getting up at 7 a.m. for off-season practice...