Word: strangerness
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Montefiore's Stalin, seen with unprecedented intimacy, is a character even stranger, more three-dimensionally mysterious, than the one we have known. A great reader, Stalin once said to the Yugoslav Milovan Djilas, "You have of course read Dostoevsky? Do you see what a complicated thing is man's soul?" Even Dostoevsky could not have invented this Stalin...
East End, a family-owned company from Ipswich, Mass., is no stranger to college life; it serves Boston University, Emerson and Berklee Colleges. Owner John Goulos credits his success in part to the company’s ability to develop edgy new flavors alongside traditional ones...
Wasynczuk is no stranger to Harvard. He received an MBA from Harvard in 1983 and has been a guest speaker at HBS classes...
...overnight cleaning shift at Wal-Mart with all the doors locked. But if you?re singing in a rock group - if you?re young and rich and famous and the crowd is screaming love at you, and if your overnight shift is taking the favors of some beautiful stranger waiting at the stage door - honestly, what do you have to mope about? The Beatles, in the first flush of their fame (when they wore matching suits), got it right. They played a song, the girls squealed, the boys smiled. Then the Rolling Stones came along and made sexual menace...
When our children are born, we study their every eyelash and marvel at the perfection of their toes, and in no time become experts in all that they do. But then the day comes when we are expected to hand them over to a stranger standing at the head of a room full of bright colors and small chairs. Well aware of the difference a great teacher can make--and the damage a bad teacher can do--parents turn over their kids and hope. Please handle with care. Please don't let my children get lost. They're breakable...