Word: slimmer
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...pyramid for older people is slimmer than that for the young, reflecting the need for fewer calories, not fewer nutrients. Because his metabolism is slower, a 50-year-old man requires fewer calories to hold his weight at, say, 170 lbs. than he did when he was 30, even though he continues to exercise at the same pace. Eight glasses of water or other fluids (except alcohol and caffeine) make up the base of the new pyramid. Younger adults need the same amount, but they don't have to be told to drink. Thirst tells them. As people age, though...
...that may weaken the case for Oxford. But what a life De Vere led, an existence more Shakespearean than Shakespeare's! Of the man from Stratford we have only a sheaf of facts slimmer than a Gospel redacted by atheists. He is a man about whom it is impossible to write the literary biography as we know it today--kiss, tell, stab in the back, keep the codpiece, and don't dry-clean the doublet. And thus De Vere tantalizes. He may not have been the Bard, but--with apologies to whomever--was his life the stuff of which Shakespeare...
Carswell Professor of American Literature and Languages Sacvan Bercovitch's unexpected leave of absence next semester will make what some call the English department's already slim offerings in American literature even slimmer...
...copy, like the Xerox Document WorkCenter 450CP and Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 3100 seen on these pages, stuff these common office duties into compact boxes that easily fit on a shelf and sell for less than $500. And traditional monitors nowadays are coming down in price; they're getting slimmer...
Among the worse casualties are those groups specific to Radcliffe. What will happen to RUS (Radcliffe Union of Students)? Perhaps it will become HUS and join a slimmer HUC (Harvard Undergraduate Council), or perhaps RUS will cease to exist at all. Quite possibly the singers of Radcliffe Choral Society (RCS) may one day become confused with the technologists in the Harvard Computer Society (HCS). The Radcliffe Pitches will also suffer a deep identity crisis...