Word: tis
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...Tis the weekend before Christmas, and something like a hundred million Americans are heading to a place called home. They still call it that, though they've lived far away for years, and have created new branches of the family they grew up in. This trip into the past may be pleasant or painful. But for most people, whether or not they are practicing Christians, the soundtrack of that wayback machine is Christmas music: the religious and secular tunes, the novelty songs and ballads. Grandma has spun these standards for a half century or more, replacing the 78s with...
...third installment of McCourt’s autobiographical series. The first two memoirs, “Angela’s Ashes,” which won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and “‘Tis,” recount the writer’s upbringing in Limerick, Ireland. Audience member and former co-director of external relations at the GSE, Dottie V. Engler described McCourt as “the kind of guy you could only dream to [be] sitting next...
...National Association of Professional Environmentalists, says that Nile governments should be looking at geothermal and solar-power generation. "We run the risk of building these huge white elephants that benefit factories and cities but not the people who need [power]," he says. That is precisely what locals in Tis Abay, a town next to the Blue Nile Falls in Ethiopia, believe happened when a new power station was opened three years ago. Water from the Nile is now diverted away from the falls to generators, most of whose power is exported to the nearby regional capital and into the national...
...kind of Final Club (58 percent by my calculations—hey, I took “Counting People”), it is amazing what diversity in furry animals and mythological characters these respected, committed journalists are able to represent. A Fox? A Bee? An Owl? ‘Tis a veritable menagerie! Some plebeians in various other campus publications, and the vast majority of the plebeians with whom I chat, have derided “Scene” on the basis of its socioeconomic exclusivity. “Such haughtiness!” they cry, and point triumphantly...
...Tis the season for family travel--especially when there's a new member to spoil. But for new parents, heading home for the holidays can be fraught with even more headaches than the usual seasonal hassles. "Everyone wants to travel during the holidays, but if parents are really freaked out about having to visit grandparents when the baby is only 3 weeks old, I encourage them to have their in-laws come to them instead," says Dr. Marlene Coleman, author of Safe and Sound: Healthy Travel with Children and a pediatrician in practice for more than 30 years. Still, Coleman...