Word: spare
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...characters’ destruction that he puts onstage two guns, a lighter, and a bar full of flammable alcohol. The move over Hedda’s duration from relative peace to high-strung shooting and burning is inexorable, highly telegraphed and oh-so-precisely plotted, rarely allowing a spare motivation or interaction to take place along the path to the final horror...
Dangerous Business You too are parents and can understand our anxiety. Spare the lives of our boys." Antonella Agliana beamed these words to Iraq via al-Jazeera, hoping to elicit sympathy from the insurgents who held three Italian hostages, including her brother Maurizio. Three days before, word of a different videotape, which al-Jazeera declined to air, had galvanized Italy. It showed a fourth captive, Fabrizio Quattrocchi, calmly saying, "I'll show you how an Italian dies," before taking a bullet in the neck. Iraq 's continuing turmoil has been boosting antiwar feeling in Italy, but last week, public solidarity...
Those students with too few electives to spare one for Religion 1513, “History of Harvard and Its Presidents,” now have another option. Harvard University Press has released Harvard A to Z, a book about, well, itself...
After a decade of active service, I am sincerely of the opinion that one receives fundamental benefits, and renders a public service by devoting some time at least to training. I would most heartily encourage and urge all who can spare time to enlist for at least one term of military service. ALBERT A. GLEASON...
...talk about the night of a performance. Friday is always a hectic blur: After surviving a thousand quizzes and fifty problem sets, you forget what’s going on—you even have trouble remembering what classes you’re taking. I try to put every spare second to good use, so I try to find time to just lay down on my bed and relax. It’s great if I can find time for a half-hour nap before a performance. Because of the nervousness that comes with an approaching performance, believe me, just...