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...going to Monterey to ponder a big topic like the Future of Life, you can?t help but think of the marine biologist Ed Ricketts (1897-1948), a scientist who studied the myriad creatures of Monterey Bay and, more important, was a thinker far ahead of his time. Better known as the model for ?Doc?- the wise, philosophical scientist in John Steinbeck?s books Cannery Row, Sweet Thursday and The Sea of Cortez- Ricketts preached the idea that all life was related, from the sardines that once swarmed by the billions off the California coast to the people who depended...
...their college days to the end of their lives. More than 40 women poets turn up, ranging from Georgiana Cavendish, the Duchess of Devonshire, to Anne Yearsley the milkmaid poet and other servant girls on both sides of the Atlantic. They give voice to powerful feminine perspectives on a topic that might have been seen as suitable only for the governing male elite. And they touch on themes - interracial romance, sexual violence, children - that deepen the pathos within the broader historic sweep...
...that the two have met once before, while dining with Manuela L. Zoninsein ’05, Emily’s roommate and Jordan’s FUPpie. The pair seeks—largely unsuccessfully because that was the point—for more common ground. On the topic of extracurriculars, Jordan asks Emily about her activities outside of the classroom...
...fall into predictable conversation patterns. Topic A: favorite movies. Topic B: long term aspirations. When silence gets the better of them, they look across the reporters’ table to the other couple involved in FM’s little experiment...
Nearly done with his cashew chicken, Venu returns to the salient topic of the evening: random hookups...