Word: thanking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thank Harvard Dining Services for its well-meaning effort to diversify its meal selections, but we ask it stop serving us Chinese entrees. Wednesday night's "Sweet and Sour Chicken" was neither sweet nor sour. It was only spicy, and it was possibly the worst dish that has been prepared since humans mastered the use of fire...
Nonetheless, it is obvious that the time is long overdue for us to get our House in order. In closing, I would to thank the countless alums and well-wishers who have expressed concern and support since last June. I would also like to thank you for your many questions regarding the goings-on at PBH. If, from my somewhat unique perspective, I might be of further help to anyone concerning these matters, I can be reached at 340 Harvard Street in Cambridge (02139); or at GregJ10588@aol.com. I wish all of you my best...
...thank him and hang up, chalking up his curtness to the fact that I'm calling on the eve of Opening Day. Then I type up a short formal note on Crimson letterhead, stressing the large size of the paper's readership and the extraordinarily high esteem in which it is held by students, Cantabrigians and alumni alike. I request that someone call or e-mail me as soon as it is known whether Zimmer can find five or ten minutes during the week for an interview...
...half-escapist "chipped beef" a young, impoverished David imagines a wealth that can satisfy his lust for snobbery: "We give anonymously because the sackfuls of thank-you letters break our hearts with their clumsy handwriting and hopelessly phonetic spelling." Later, in "the incomplete quad," he recalls with nostalgia his shattered dreams of Harvard: "I wasn't sure what a quad was, but I knew that I wanted one desperately. My college friends would own horses and monogrammed shoehorns...
...Richard McBrien feels that we have quite enough heaven now, thank you. McBrien, a liberal Catholic theologian at the University of Notre Dame who has skirmished on occasion with the Vatican but whose theological and historical grasp few would question, believes that before the Vatican II reforms of the mid-1960s, his church had slipped into the lazy role of using heaven and hell as "stories meant to encourage and frighten." Catholicism's once vivid otherworldliness had devolved into a sort of rote board game, in which preoccupation with involved scenarios of the life to come became an excuse...