coagulate Definition: (verb) To cause transformation of (a liquid or sol, for example) into or as if into a soft, semisolid, or solid mass. Synonyms: clot Usage: The medical students watched blood coagulate as part of their lesson in clotting […]

LEHMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS presents Viva Cuba! SEPTETO NACIONAL DE CUBA IGNACIO PIÑEIRO and ORQUESTA BROADWAY   Lehman Center for the Performing Arts is proud to present the legendary champion of Cuban son SEPTETO NACIONAL DE CUBA IGNACIO PIÑEIRO and the longest running charanga band […]

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolutioninevitable. John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

valance Definition: (noun) An ornamental drapery hung across a top edge, as of a bed, table, or canopy. Synonyms: cornice, pelmet, valance board Usage: Large valances of silk, embroidered with flowers of gay colors, which were rather faded,fell from the […]

miscreant Definition: (noun) A person without moral scruples. Synonyms: reprobate Usage: And here, gentlemen, the foul play of these miscreants must come out.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars. E. M. Forster (1879-1970)

THE NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCES STREET CLOSURES FOR THE NEW YEAR’S EVE CELEBRATION IN TIMES SQUARE More than a billion people all over the world are expected to watch the yearly ball drop in New York’s Times Square on […]

buffoonery Definition: (noun) Acting like a clown or buffoon. Synonyms: clowning, harlequinade, prank, frivolity Usage: Mrs. Williams had little patience for the class clown’s buffoonery, and she would often send him to the principal’s office.

Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)