Word: vincent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Vincent, the Nigerian narrator of Segun Afolabi's impressive new novel, Goodbye Lucille, has left London and his girlfriend for 1985 Berlin. Working as a photographer, he spends his free time there getting drunk with his friends: Clariss, a transsexual ex-marine turned escort girl; B, a Cameroonian working in removals; and Tunde, a Nigerian playboy who selects girlfriends largely on the basis of their breast size. They are all in exile of a kind. Ari, Vincent's Kurdish neighbor, has been driven to paranoia by the violence he has witnessed. His friend Ezmir kills himself after "an interview with...
...survey conducted this academic year at a dozen colleges by Rutgers professor Donald McCabe, 67% of the 13,248 respondents admitted to having cheated at least once on a paper or test--some students are getting administrators to rethink their use of gotcha tools. Nova Scotia's Mount St. Vincent University went as far as banning Turnitin after the student-union president complained that it created "a culture of mistrust, a culture of guilt...
...whole time, and every race was really important.”“Kyle sailed really well yesterday, really fast,” Knowles said. “He had some good starts all weekend.”Knowles and Simon replaced the boat of skipper Vincent Porter ’06 and crew Ruth Schlitz ’06, which helped Harvard to a third-place finish at the same event last year.In 2006, Johnson and Simon sailed together, while this year marked the return of Lynch to her regular pairing with Johnson.“I have...
...said Adams House general cook Edward P. Childs. “Later it just started getting repugnant, like the nasty B.O. in the gym.” Several students and staff said the smell reminded them of sewage. “It was fetid,” said Vincent M. Chiappini ’09. “It definitely had that septic smell. It wasn’t just weird, it was gross.” “At one point it was unbearable to come in here,” added Aditi Mallick...
...Reception,” a play by L.M. Vincent, a young psychologist, Blair (Priour), comes to Meg’s (Woods) Boston apartment. He plans to sabotage the engagement of Meg’s daughter Melissa (Anna I. Polonyi ’10), for whom Meg is throwing an engagement party and with whom Blair has been in love since high school. A delightfully quirky mix of guests arrives throughout the day, including a broke businessman turned porn writer (Steve Sweeney), a giggly southern belle whose past is not as chaste as it seems (Rebecca M. Harrington...