Word: soured
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stacks sometime in October. They suggested taking class location into consideration during shopping week, and I spend a semester sprinting from Boylston Hall to a seminar at Hilles every Monday. They warned me against dating people in my entryway, against taking early classes, against eating the sweet and sour pork at Annenberg...
While I am not affiliated with the Living Wage Campaign, I think that its demands compare favorably with Resnick's heartless prose: "sour grapes employees...should be identified and retrained in the art of the customer service." At a time when corporate values seem to be encroaching on every aspect of American life, it is refreshing when Harvard is asked to show compassion and wisdom, to be something better than a business...
...sense a strain of self-contempt these days in English satire? Not self-doubt, of course, and certainly not humility, just a weary roll of the eyes that follows a glance in the mirror? So it seems with Barnes' very funny, very sour new novel, which re-creates England as a theme park on the Isle of Wight. The park is the brainstorm of Sir Jack Pitman, an overweening press lord, and his staff members, one of whom has doubts: "How do we advertise the English...a people widely perceived...as cold, snobbish, emotionally retarded, and xenophobic? As well...
...success was short-lived, however, as the Crimson suffered a tight 5-4 losses to Yale and Boston College to start the season on a sour note...
...report catches China in an even more sour mood. Long resentful that the West never treats them as equals, the Chinese are hungry to control their own military destiny. They want to match the U.S. on the world stage and dominate their hemisphere in the same way Washington dominates its own. China's approach to international relations may seem crude, but it underpins the deep anger with which China has greeted the recent string of American embarrassments. Charges of campaign-financing corruption, Premier Zhu Rongji's rebuffed concessions to win WTO endorsement, NATO's assault on a sovereign Yugoslavia...