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...churns down the school corridors to music that sounds like the theme for The Wizard of Oz's Wicked Witch of the West; students scatter rather than get caught in the laser beam of her cool rage. In history class she makes one think of Harry Potter's Professor Snape, so regal is her malevolence, so acute her gift for the demeaning remark that cuts through the skin of her best students and into their fragile egos. Her intellect has veered into artful cruelty. Her ambition has been curdled by this life sentence in a town she was dying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Crash Course In Humiliation | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

Anti-nuclear activists have recently turned to the use of proxies to snape corporate practices. This trend towards economic pressure tactics may find a following on the Harvard campus in the same way that pressure for corporate morality in South Africa has in the last few years...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Harvard's Nuclear Ties | 10/26/1979 | See Source »

...while, he lived with his married sister Beth, but found it difficult to compose while Beth's children played trains under his feet, or left sticky traces of jam on the piano. Then he and Librettist Slater moved to Snape in Suffolk, to a windmill which Britten had remodeled as a house. There they plunged into Peter Grimes. Slater would work up in a bedroom, and shout down to Benjy, lolling on the grass, "How do you like this line?" They took long walks over the bleak Suffolk downs, saying nothing to each other, each busy with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera's New Face | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...complete coverage" of pictures, the chairman added, will include the innovations of two full pages of candids in the activities section, action snape of minor as well as major sports, and the largest view section the Album has ever had. Other changes will include a new type of cover with John Harvard's profile stamped on it, and a "spectrotint" frontispiece in three colors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MONDAY IS NAMED AS DATE FOR ALBUM | 5/14/1940 | See Source »

...pound class: Captain Robertson defeated Snape (M.I.T.) by fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON MATMEN OVERWHELM M.I.T. IN TWO CONTESTS | 2/18/1931 | See Source »

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