Word: yore
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...final act, the fluttering fans and swirling gowns that graced Korean royal courts of yore met the boisterous yet elegant thumping drums of the farming and commoner classes...
...anonymous Web-surfing days of yore may soon return if Brandon K. Guttman ’00-’02 has his way. Guttman and his business partner Dan Houston ’01 recently unveiled the first commercial version of Jimmy Surf, software that promises to keep an Internet user’s net history a secret between him, his god and, well, Jimmy Surf...
After decades of herding kids to camp, some families are reconsidering it this year. The recession is a factor, as is the desire since Sept. 11 to keep kids near home. But there's also an urge to return to the unstructured days of yore, when a child's summer was shared lazily with neighborhood pals...
...Summers takes student input but then decides against what students say, he risks looking like his council visits are just lip service—and Lee’s attempt to re-engage in political issues will mean her council will be stuck with the impotent image of yore. The Lee-Summers relationship is a slippery slope: both the University and the Undergraduate Council are constantly waging an uphill battle for positive public relations. Likely next on the new “joint” docket: ROTC, a road guaranteed to be rocky. During her campaign, Lee?...
Until such problems find resolution, other members hark back to the good old days, and hope that the House of Funk will live up to the Pad parties of yore. Spiegelman searches for Funk-specific terminology: I hesitate to even call them parties, he says, There is just much less talking involved. Its about being sprawled out on a shag rug, being exposed to Scammons music (Scammon maintains an impressive library of funk CDs) as a band. I think a lot of the stuff we play is due to the shared experience there in the wee hours of the night...