Word: waxing
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...Department by Hilary Spurling (Penguin; 208 pages). These additions to the mountain of Orwelliana provide new intelligence on one of literature's most puzzling figures. Like the time he used black magic to kill somebody. In a minor literary scoop, Bowker reports that the teenaged Eric Blair made a wax effigy of a hated fellow student at Eton, contemplated sticking pins in it but settled for tearing off a leg. The victim, an older boy named Philip Yorke, promptly suffered a broken leg and was dead of leukemia within months. Orwell's remorse, Bowker suggests, reinforced his sense of guilt...
...lastly, I will miss the sports themselves. All my life, I have always been inexplicably drawn to athletics and the pleasurable purity of competition on the field or court or ice. I won’t wax poetic about the beauty of sport, but I will say that its allure is what got me writing for Crimson Sports in the first place. It was, if nothing else, a fan’s way of getting more involved and probing a world with which few are truly intimate. No matter what I end up doing in life...
...nearly $200. Team Clean also formulated a point system designed to ?encourage? good hygiene among residents of the city?s 700,000 public-housing flats. Tenants who accrue 16 points in two years could face eviction. The point system is itself littered with odd value judgments; boiling wax in public is worth five points, for instance, while spitting gets you seven. To enforce it, the government will ask tenants to inform on dirty neighbors. Critics question the attempt to modify behavior through legislation, and many residents plan to ignore the new system altogether. In April, a group of politicians...
...strange combination of totally immersing myself into my imagination and artistic state, and yet writing with the full awareness that any pair of eyes could be reading the same thing,” says Liu. “Whenever I want to keep something secret, I just wax incoherent, undecipherable poetic that only I can understand, and that leaves everyone else in the dark, scratching an unlocated itch.” To see what she means, head to www.cmliu.com...
With pre-frosh weekend around the corner and the last two weeks of classes just beginning, I have started to wax nostalgic about the past four years. But before you dismiss this as another self-indulgent stroll down memory lane, bear with me for a few more paragraphs. A lot has changed since my own first Ice Cream Bash; we have a new president, a new Dean, a new Institute for Advanced Study. We’ve witnessed the Yard filled with snow, with leaves, with tents and with anti-war protesters. There have been changes for the better...