Word: somberness
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...help me. And if you’re not, you’re not.RR: I will not help you. I am Drew Gilpin Faust, the President of Harvard. Tym Lewtak ’11 RR: What will you miss most about Harvard?TL: Do you want me to be somber or happy?RR: Whatever, man. TL: Okay, well I guess I’d say that the resources are amazing and the people are great.RR: What’s your plan for the next year?TL: I’m going to study in London this summer, then back...
...decades, they have been a familiar sight in the sun-kissed Indian state of Kerala or the country's crumbling eastern metropolis of Kolkata. The somber portraits of dead white men - a bearded Marx, a bespectacled Lenin, and Stalin, his moustache bristling - peer down at passers-by from banners strung up over palm trees or street-corner billboards, accompanied by the less-hallowed visages of local comrades. India's Communists have been key players in the hurly burly of the world's largest democracy, dominating the ballot box in states like West Bengal, where Kolkata is the capital, and where...
...wonder whether he has botched the opportunity to redress past shortcomings and strengthen the church's ties to the Jewish people. Like John Paul, Benedict came of age in one of the Holocaust's European slaughterhouses, and many expected that the Bavarian, like the Pole, could turn his somber history into a special authority for combatting anti-Semitism and pursuing the pro-Jewish reforms the church enacted at the Second Vatican Council in 1965. But he hasn't done so. Instead, says David Gibson, the (Catholic) author of The Rule of Benedict: Pope Benedict XVI and His Battle with...
...save a dollar, let alone the $200 million needed to cover this year’s FAS deficit, this is one issue on which a marginal increase in attention from the administration and Faculty would result in considerable goodwill from students. After a year of budget cuts and somber news, this small investment of time and energy would remind students that one of the College’s end commitments is to a solid undergraduate experience, both in 10 years and tomorrow. Therefore, we hope that Dean Hammonds can lead the effort to have the report released and sent...
...last painting in the Boston show is a very somber self-portrait by the 70-year-old Tintoretto. It was painted around 1588, a dozen years after Titian's death and close to the time of Veronese's (he was abruptly claimed by pneumonia at age 60). The graybeard artist with sunken eyes stares out at us from a deep pool of shadow. He's the last man standing, indisputably now the greatest living artist in Venice. The great game is over - and he looks like he misses...