Word: sisyphus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Neither, for that matter, did Sisyphus. I am convinced that when I die, the gods will put me in a never-ending Harvard dorm room with an infinite number of posters, and I will spend eternity trying to keep them all up on the wall at the same time. Futility of futilities...
...interested in finding out what Wellesley student life is like, or how Wellesley students view Harvard, perhaps the editors should send their reporters out to the Wellesley College campus rather than make these rising journalists forgo an entire Friday evening riding a crowded bus like a "punished Sisyphus...
According to Greek mythology, the gods punished Sisyphus after his death by making him constantly push a heavy stone up a hill. Whenever Sisyphus neared the top, the stone would escape his grasp and roll down to the bottom of the hill, condemning the ancient king to another painful trip...
...Sisyphus would have felt at home on the Wellesley Senate...
...regularly writes to the prisoners: "We may never hear from them but we keep writing, for years." She rejoices that now for the first time Russian writers are in PEN and Czech writers are back in the fold. "It's a labor of Sisyphus," she sighs. "Just as they are let out in Russia, they've increased in Turkey and Kenya...