Word: tellingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...least being vegetarian avoids the whole ritual of denial. People don't seem to have the urge to pulverize vegetables beyond the point of recognition--I can pretty much tell what vegetables are in any salad. But if you are a carnivorous human, don't give me any jive about something being wrong to eat because it reminds you of what the animal was. Better the regret than the denial; nothing like the bittersweet recognition that something had to give for you to have your meal. It's good for your psyche. No meal should...
...before our freshman year, and we kept in touch. Jeff became known among my friends as "The Bear" in honor of his imposing stature, a full 15 inches taller than me, which made for interesting conversations! At some point, a mutual friend confronted me, insulted by my neglecting to tell her that Jeff and I were dating. I was taken aback since, I knew nothing about it. Apparently all of Jeff's Princeton friends did though . . . Our contact lagged as he pointedly refused to stay in touch on a friendship basis. This was the first time I'd seen...
...quite alright, because the UC isn't even the favorite extracurricular activity of Sterling Price Adams Darling Jr. '01. With a Southern drawl and strict no-jeans policy, he seems suited for cotillions and cotton plantations, not a throng of 1,700 Latin students who laugh at his name, tell and retell legends about him and hang on his every necktie--but that's where Darling most wants...
...Only his behavioral code rivals Darling's dress code in formality. Arianne L. Baker, who has served on both the NJCL and NSCL executive boards with Sterling, recalls the lengths he would go to legitimate himself when he called her house regarding NJCL business. "He would always tell my parents exactly who he was and why he was calling, and then when I answered, he would tell me again that it was 'Sterling Darling, NJCL editor, calling from Texas.'" The two of them had already known each other for many months. Neha N. Patel served on two executive boards with...
...always tell your friends all about your hook-ups?" I queried, not so neutrally...