Word: swearing
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...Delivery rooms tend to be noisy and joyful places. Mothers in the midst of childbirth have been known to scream, swear, and growl. Conversely, obstetricians and midwives maintain a calm and instructive tone. Nurses offer encouragement. IVs drip, monitors beep. The obstetrician, having accompanied the mother-to-be through her uncomfortable pregnancy and painful childbirth, finally delivers the prized baby with the customary, "It's a boy" or "It's a girl." The little one gives a lusty cry then the nurse or pediatrician quickly assesses the newborn, performs any necessary resuscitation, and then, when all is stable, places...
...lives. But in spirit she's still there?"It's clear," she says, "clear water, full of water lilies and turtles and fish." To read the magisterial Carpentaria (Giramondo; 519 pages) is to enter Wright's world. What's evoked is not just a physical place, where "you could swear you heard the daydreams of lazy lizards sunning themselves on the branches," but a spiritual realm painted on an operatic scale, where the ancestral rainbow serpent forges the land, a river of fairy people, the yinbirras, rushes tsunami-like through the bush, and a cyclone hits the coast...
...among the diverse group of creative and promising fellows who will be granted $500,000 over the next five years. The MacArthur Foundation, an independent grant-making institution, closely guards the release of its recipient list. The professors were informed last week. “They made me swear on my children not to tell anyone but my wife,” joked Gawande, assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and an assistant professor in health policy and management at the Harvard School of Public Health. “I haven’t told...
...Opera.” A discussion of Lit and Arts B must include mention of “First Nights: Five Performance Premiers.” Don’t mind the fact that Kelly will at times dance across the Sanders Theatre stage during lecture—we swear that the rest of the course is actually quite good. First Nights presents musical history in a digestible, popular style, and the course text, written by Kelly, is actually readable (i.e. if you stay awake in lecture, you don’t need to do the reading). Kelly?...
...core course, “The Evolution of Human Nature”—formerly a gut—taught by Prof. Marc Hauser and and Prof. Richard Wrangham. 2. Something you will have a lot of at Harvard, with very attractive people. For real, I swear. 3. Not a determinant of scientific intelligence. 4. Intercourse (only at Harvard is this...