Word: familiarities
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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After 43 years, our relationship with the Franchise had grown so familiar and worn that we'd quietly moved into separate bedrooms. If we'd had the energy, we might have signed divorce papers. Nonetheless, every few years, the Franchise put on a new outfit and twirled around hopefully. This usually won it some new admirers, although those of us who remembered the deep past most fondly were less enamored of its new permutations. We wished the Franchise no ill will, but at the same time we occasionally thought: Give it a rest, darling, you're showing your...
...Students familiar with Joo in rigorous science classes recalled her likability...
Indeed, we hope that students here in the summer might use the closure of the MAC as an opportunity to go outside and see more of Cambridge and Boston. Summer is a rare, welcome gap of time in which exploration off familiar paths is possible. It seems a waste of this opportunity to seclude oneself in a building with other Harvard students during free time. During winter, students have no choice other than to batten down the hatches and stay indoors at all times. Summer is a season to be outside and now, perhaps, to become better acquainted with...
...often “larger than life.” “I like to try to be hokey, especially for the kids,” Miller says. Accordingly, the tricks performed—cards going blank, disappearing coins and rope tricks—draw from the familiar canon of magic deeds. The mixed audience, made up of both Harvard students and local families, dictates a wide-ranging spectacle. “We try to keep it fun for everybody,” Miller says. “We don’t tell any dirty jokes...
...next week. Currently serving his second term as a Boston city councilor at-large, Yoon is the first Asian American ever to hold that position, and the first to run for any public office in Boston. Despite the historic nature of his campaign, few of the students interviewed were familiar with his platform before yesterday’s event. Attendees, about two thirds of whom were Asian American, were divided over the importance of Yoon’s heritage. “It’s huge,” said Allison J. Rhee, a Northeastern student attending the event...