Word: remarkably
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While most of these notes get thrown out, I've been hanging on to one particular scrap that grabbed my attention. It bears only the Jeopardy-esque remark, "A Portuguese word that means 'nostalgia for a thing that never existed.'" I don't know where this note came from or what in fact the word is. A cursory search of Portuguese speakers and dictionaries has failed to find it, and I'm beginning to suspect that it, too, is a thing that never existed...
International Women's Day is normally celebrated March 8. Last night's belated celebration was the result of a remark Sur made to Edidiong N. Ikpe '99, who is president of the Association of Black Radcliffe Women (ABRW). Sur, who is Ikpe's senior thesis advisor, mentioned the holiday to Ikpe, who had never heard...
...International Women's Day is normally celebrated March 8. Last night's belated celebration was the result of a remark Sur made to Edidiong N. Ikpe '99, who is president of the Association of Black Radcliffe Women (ABRW). Sur, who is Ikpe's senior thesis advisor, mentioned the holiday to Ikpe, who had never heard...
...points out the history of her house in Roxborough, a house my great-grandparents built, it feels like a monument. But it isn't, because Grammy is not a millionaire. Neither is my grandfather, although for some reason Harvard pursues them both with enough vigor for her to remark to me about how sorry she is she can't give. Then we laugh...
...unlikely friendship between sweet Beth and the tough, hysterical head investigator, Whoopie Goldberg. Goldberg is realistic and tactless, introducing herself to Beth as, "Hi my name is Candy, Candy Bliss. Sounds like a porn-star....What can I say, presents can be so cruel to kids." Naturally this ironic remark drives Beth to tears, and for the next nine years, angst-ridden, she tries to cope, unsuccessfully, with her guilt over Ben's loss...