Word: snickering
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...Mellow Kid, who may or may not be a senior humanities concentrator, promises not to let this semester’s cartoons deteriorate into surly commentary on thesis trauma and/or kvetching about Core requirements. Watch the Kid tackle today’s pressing issues, or at least point and snicker at them, on Mondays...
...column is not to harp on past loves lost (I only have 1,000 words, after all), but to lament a much more common answer to the aforementioned question, a concentration so unnecessary, ridiculous, and over-dramatized that it’s hard to mention it anymore without a snicker on your face. I am talking, of course, about VES—Visual and Environmental Studies—also known as “art.”I can feel the crimson tides of fury rising as some of my readers begin sharpening their swords and paintbrushes, raising their...
...often, however, the play prioritizes the mundane over the insane. At times, the play is simply making the same cracks that we’ve all made to each other about dining hall food, messy roommates, and Yale. While the goal often seems to be the groan-snicker of recognition that comes with the umpteenth comment about these constants of life, even in song form the well-worn jokes have gotten somewhat dull from repetition. They often seem obligatory, as if authors Aliza H. Aufrichtig ’08 and Ximena S. Vengoechea ’08 felt duty-bound...
...feel comfortable and proud of who they are. Sometimes that simply means raising queer visibility; sometimes that means throwing a party; sometimes that means educating people about issues like campus policies; and sometimes that means talking about sexual practices or identities that are normally only mentioned with a snicker or a sneer...
...professor Stephen Mayo ran into resistance when they proposed a new approach to fighting disease. They argued that because protein shapes vary according to their functions, it should be possible to create new disease-fighting proteins by first imagining their shape. "You could hear the people at Caltech snicker," says Dahiyat...