Word: grind
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...declines to discuss his future works.‘NOT AN ADVOCATE’McClintick cites Truman G. Capote, Gay Talese, and former Crimson associate managing editor J. Anthony Lukas ’55, as his models. And like the latter two, McClintick has left the daily grind of newspapering to pursue long-form narrative nonfiction.His painstakingly reported accounts read like riveting novels. “He makes us care by means of the detail that he lavishes on the drama,” reviewer Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote in The New York Times. In recent years, McClintick?...
...science courses with labs, that left little time for extracurricular activities,” he adds, adding that organic chemistry was his favorite class. Placed in Lowell House after his freshman year, Leder says that the dormitory, known at the time as “a grind house” was for diligent undergrads. “I liked it very much, it was considered to be a house for those striving to get good grades,” he recalls. According to Bouchard, their Stoughton entryway was comprised predominantly of scholastic types. “We were not party...
...last 50 years. It still plays at least nine hours of classical music daily, and jazz remains a prominent part of its programming. Nowadays, though, the Record Hospital takes over late at night to play, according to its website, “best punk, pop, hardcore, emo, noise, death grind, new wave, no wave, post punk, prepunk, indie, crust, and whatnot that we can damn well get our hands on.” And their focus is no longer “geared to the tastes of Harvard,” as it was in the 1950s. WHRB President Ashwin...
...crossings and help the North Korean people, a great step in the right direction would be spurring its basket-case neighbor to embrace reform and globalization rather than just providing generous aid to prop up the regime. If that happened, the underground railroad created by American Christians would eventually grind to a halt, a result that I am sure they and other activists would warmly welcome. Chen Liang Singapore Although the human-rights violations being committed in North Korea are sickening, they are unfortunately nothing new. The world has known for decades about North Korea's Stalinist-inspired gulags...
...addition, carving a concentration system out of electives, as Florida has proposed, subverts the supposed objective of making high school more interesting. Electives are, by definition, optional courses designed to sweeten high school’s somewhat bitter cake with a refreshing break from the usual grind. Replacing electives with an academically intensive major transforms these invigorating breaks into further academic hoops to jump through, making the overall educational experience less stimulating for many students...