Word: opus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Notes: Kerr invited Rev. Robert Buccharelli '56 into the locker room before the game to offer a prayer for the success of the new season. Buccharelli is associated with the Center for Opus Dei on Follen St. in Cambridge. (For most of the game however, divine intervention seemed to benefit the Mountaineers, given the number of Crimson chances that went wide. The Lord works in mysterious ways, and perhaps Austin's miss at the end balanced the ledger...
...didn't plan it that way, that's for sure. I didn't foresee it as any sort of grand opus or meditation on the American experience. I just wanted to put as much in there as I possibly could that I saw around me and try to deal with as many things that made me uncomfortable, not necessarily as a person but just simply as an aspiring cartoonist or writer. "Can I really deal with this or even describe this in any way? Can I even write a character like this?" It's more of a challenge for myself...
...groundbreaking move, King will be offering chapter one of his next opus, "The Plant," on the Internet, where readers will be able to print it right off the screen without any intermediary transaction. But in order to keep the page-turner scrolling, King fans will have to pony up a dollar per installment - and hope that their fellow readers are equally honorable: If less than 75 percent of people who download pay up, King will simply stop posting chapters, and no one will find out what happens. And that might even include King, who hasn't written the book...
Serenaded by a string quartet playing Dvorak's opus, the honorands dined last night in Annenberg Hall on tomato basil soup, veal scaloppini with Madeira sauce and almond tulie cups for dessert...
...time in the short view. Shunning the dangerous temptations of the outside world, I worked in my room an average of 12 hours a day, reading for classes and writing my thesis. My breaks consisted of e-mail and instant messages. If I finished a section of my magnum opus or managed some other extraordinary feat, I rewarded myself with TV-watching, web-browsing or--after an all-important upgrade--TV-watching while web-browsing. When lengthier diversions were necessary, I read magazines, comic books and the occasional romance novel...