Word: barrenness
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...characters from location to location in Paris, lost in the fun of envisioning the streets where I had just been —sometimes as recently as that afternoon. As I turned page after page, I found that the telegraphic sentences I remembered as terse and barren were immensely satisfying to read. They were exciting. They lent his writing a sense of immediacy and importance that is hard to rival. They flashed by and I realized that, despite myself, I was enjoying it. I was party to Jake Barnes’ trip out to Pamplona. I sat there and drank...
Proprietor Julian Melck is one of the eighth generation of Melcks to farm this barren land, which his family first settled in 1770. He hosts extravagant dinner parties - foie gras, venison, malva pudding, set to robust reds from nearby vineyards - around a giant polished table at which he arranges guests with a view to conversation. Accommodation is king-size and regally furnished - leather armchairs, four-poster beds, wall-to-wall libraries - in a line of converted outbuildings. And with geese wandering down the dust avenue that runs between the buildings as horses nuzzle in their pens beyond, the view...
...manicured lawn" is looking increasingly out of date. In the 1950s, when suburbia first began to sprawl, a perfectly trimmed front yard embodied the post-war prosperity Americans aspired to. Today, amid rising fuel costs, food safety scares and growing environmental awareness, a chemically treated and verdant but nutritionally barren lawn seems wasteful, he says...
...growth of plants on land, the chemicals enhance the rapid development of algae in the water. When the algae die and decompose, the process sucks all the oxygen out of the surrounding waters, leading to a hypoxic event - better known as a "dead zone." The water becomes as barren as the surface of the moon. What sea life that can flee the zone does so; what can't, dies...
...stands now, Harvard housing leaves quite a bit to be desired. From the barren wasteland of Cabot House to the “quaint” walkthrough triples of Dunster, many students currently preparing for their housing lotteries are faced with less than ideal options. In recent years, Harvard has done little to combat this problem, even as our peer institutions have embarked on ambitious housing projects such as Princeton’s construction of the $100 million Whitman College and Yale’s extensive renovation of its 12 residential colleges. But hope is on the way. Last week...