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...Great War did not improve matters. The writer Cyril Connolly—cheery fellow this one—wrote to his friend that he was “tired of the country...I do feel it is a dying civilization—decadent, but in such a damned dull way??going stuffy and comatose instead of collapsing beautifully like France.” Similarly, returning from India in 1922, E.M. Forster described post-war England with an oriental flourish—as “a person who has folded her hands and stands waiting...
...holiday in a lab culturing cells. Others said cost and travel time led them to stay put for the holiday. Yuliya S. Nikolova ’09, who is from Bulgaria, said plane tickets were too expensive—and flights too lengthy at 12 to 13 hours each way??to make the trip worthwhile. “It was nice not having to worry about doing any work or having deadlines,” said Chute, a forward on the varsity women’s hockey team whose athletic obligations required her to stay in Cambridge...
...let’s get this started!” Wearing signs that read “Another ________ Against the War,” a group of 100 people—composed mostly of students from Boston-area colleges and universities, but also spectators who joined in along the way??marched in silence for four miles from Boston Common to Marsh Plaza to protest America’s involvement in the Iraq conflict. Marchers filled in the blank on their signs with everything from the general—“Student?...
...sizeable number considering only about 10,000 voters showed up to the polls. Most interestingly, they ran TV ads on cable channels—for the first time in local electoral history—chanting the cheesy-but-catchy team slogan: “Vote Line A All The Way??—a reference to their party’s place on the ballot...
...Emergency & I,” the D.C. area’s noisy, slightly self-righteous sound is tempered by relentless, self-deprecating irony and graceful, charismatic sonic power. “Spider in the Snow”—you’re the spider, by the way??best embodies the album’s alienated tone. As the band disinterestedly shifts from lazy funk to Radiohead’s electronic quaver, Morrison’s bored vocals are an emotional dead weight: “How can a body move the speed of light / And still...