Word: treads
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...goes for the summer tale of “Immersion,” in which racial prejudices engrained in children are acted out around the town swimming pool. Though the story evades the trap of complete triteness by eventually introducing a mysterious and deadly disease plaguing the community, oft-tread cliches weigh down the story’s first half...
...warm spring nights approach, Harvard students trekking back to the Quad from late night River revelry can walk confidently where they once feared to tread: blue light phones have finally been installed in Cambridge Common...
Other than Justice, there is not a class on campus universally recognized to offer its students a transformative intellectual experience through the introduction of basic ideas and texts. I don’t want to tread far into great-books territory in this column, but just in case you are looking to read a few great books or wrap your mind around a few influential ideas, here are three classes I have taken over the last eight semesters that deserve Sanders Theatre status for the way they develop students’ intellectual capacity and provide the general information necessary...
...world was a stage every last inch of which the Pope appeared determined to tread. Three months after his election, he boarded a plane for the Dominican Republic and Mexico on the first of scores of global pilgrimages that established the exultant rhythm of his papacy. People expected the youngest Pope in 132 years--a 58-year-old outdoorsman described by an Australian newspaper as "built like a rugby front-row forward"--to be energetic. Yet even St. Paul, the archetypal evangelist, might have wondered at John Paul's 1989, a fairly typical year, featuring stops in Madagascar, Reunion, Zambia...
...it’s still around. The place just smells like a pub, a sublime combination of wood, beer, and stew. Those who take a seat at the bar join the company of such serious thinkers and major drinkers as Van Morrison and G-Love and Special Sauce. Tread softly if the conversation turns to politics, though: “the Plough and Stars” was the standard of the Irish Marxists and secessionists not too long ago. Soft lantern lighting creates a cheerful, cozy ambience around the all-wood bar. The paneled walls are lovingly decorated with pictures...