Word: wildernessã
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...itself was little more than a training ground for the clergy. Through all its growth and change, the University has tried to keep some of its colonial heritage intact, in line with its pride in being America’s first college, “first flower of the wilderness??. Street names such as Dunster, Holyoke, Trowbridge, Brattle, and Plympton play as much a role in this effort as the cobblestones on the sidewalks, the names and simplicity of the buildings in the Yard, and the architecture of the Houses on the river. As the Crimson noted...
...complain. I had no backpack, no head lamp—I didn’t even have a North Face fleece. My new groupmates looked at me, distant but curious. There was the ripped marathon runner, the guy who described his backyard as a “wilderness?? he tamed for fun, and the girl who had spent her summer on some sort of death march-esque wilderness experience in Alaska. Then there was me, wearing a pink bandana. As I strapped on my rented backpack on the first day, I tried to push away memories of wandering...
...human with a soul can testify that nothing is more compelling than cute animals who must overcome impossible odds in the wilderness??think “Benji...
...group of disillusioned former Democrats (many of them former Marxists), mostly from New York and northern California, spent these “wilderness?? years in think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute. Together, they crafted what would become neo-conservatism—an attack on Jimmy’s Carter weakness, but mainly a new conservative agenda to end arms control, rebuild the military, aid anti-Communists and thus (they believed) defeat the Soviet Union. This was the coherent policy vision Ronald Reagan could consistently embrace; this was the program the voters...
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