My dad, not a natural Scrabbler, would usually be somewhere in the background, guffawing loudly at his annual dose of Bill Bryson. We sometimes encouraged him to join us, but he took painfully long ...
The word "banal" originates from the French word banal, meaning "pertaining to a ban" or something commonplace. It referred to something that was available to all or overused. The term entered English ...
On Jan. 22, the Brandeis community received an email from Provost Carol Fierke containing the news that Prof. Arthur Holmberg (THA) had passed away at the age of 80. Holmberg was a part of the ...