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...Grader” phrases—“It is absurd.” What force! What gall! What fun! “Ridiculous,” “hopeless,” “nonsense,” on the one hand; “doubtless,” “obvious,” “unquestionable,” on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, antiacademic languor at this stage as well may match the grader’s own mood: “It seems...
...such a staff could clearly never be expected to win a World Series. The injury to Pedro Martinez was, of course, vital, but even before he went down the staff looked decidedly thin. His injury was merely a convenient peg for a slide that would have doubtless occurred at some point with a patchy staff that had only two quality starters, one of whose success—Hideo Nomo—was a real surprise...
...That’s interesting. But you needn’t be afraid of hurting my feelings; you doubtless have perfectly good reasons and they are exactly what I want to find out. Why have you decided against Harvard...
Alas, those who have looked around will doubtless have recognized the fallacy here: Harvard’s landscape is blotted by hideous concrete towers that would seem more at home in East Berlin (or, perhaps, B.U. East) than they do in this otherwise-Edenic corner of Cambridge. The very words “Mather House” should strike fear into aesthetes throughout the country. Speaking in 1984 on a proposed extension to the National Gallery in London, the Prince of Wales said that it would resemble “a monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved...
...decades she seemed the fairy godmother of an entire adoring nation. Elizabeth, Queen Consort to King George VI and mother of Queen Elizabeth II, was, historians will doubtless record, the woman who helped restore the majesty of the throne after the abdication of George's brother Edward VIII in 1936. But the Queen Mother's former subjects will be more likely to remember her as the sprightly Queen Mum who seemed almost a part of everyone's family...