Word: wit
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...boring food, drink no alcohol and spend all my spare time in a gym in exchange for 10 extra years in an old people's home," read one. "If we listened to these scientists we would all be like supermodels eating a lettuce leaf for dinner," scoffed another wit. A couple of entries inevitably referenced the old debauchees that so many of us claim to have heard about but hardly anyone has met: "Can we have a study to find out why some people spend their lives doing everything that is supposed to be bad for them and yet still...
...will take place this weekend, that one instance where my classmates and I will unite to support our football team and experience what life would have been like at a real college. Countless shirts have been circulating, praising Harvard’s dominance over Yale with varying degrees of wit and logic. In honor of tomorrow’s festivities, let’s examine the Harvard-Yale face-off in an arena that makes much more sense than football—literature. Harvard’s unbridled superiority became immediately apparent when comparing the wikipedia pages entitled...
...smoking slice of revisionist 1960s rhythm and blues that turned male sexual braggadocio into high comedy. The album and the single just earned Gabriel four Grammy nominations (awards to be announced Feb. 24), and the singer says that he is "pleased." Then, using a characteristic combination of deflective wit and earnestness, he adds, "I'm a little cynical about awards, but it's different when you're nominated for one yourself. The thing that would be nice is if the Grammy people opened up to Third World music...
...wanted to even the score; the U.S. wanted French money, supplies and military help. Together they beat Britain (there were more French soldiers than Americans at the battle of Yorktown). Their hardheaded transactions were sweetened by personal alliances. America's most important diplomat in Paris was the scientist and wit Benjamin Franklin, who became such a celebrity in France that his image graced snuffboxes and inkwells. The hero the French sent in return was the Marquis de Lafayette, an ardent young nobleman who passionately embraced the cause of liberty and was regarded by George Washington as a surrogate...
...Agassiz Theatre. The director is David R. Gammons ’92, the student producer is Christine K.L. Bendorf ’10, and almost all the actors are current undergraduates at Harvard College. Fortunately, the play is not weighed down by its symbolic connections, instead maintaining a cutting wit and sense of the absurd throughout...