Word: writing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said before, I don't mean to sound like an old fuddy duddy who'd rather walk than take a motor car or who'd rather write long, languishing letters than call (although at least the latter is true). I just think we've got to realize that some people like L.P.'s even if they're turning into musical neanderthals. C.D. players are kind of like car phones or answering machines with remote call-in--sure they're an improvement, an advance, a fine addition to any upwardly mobile life. But they're heartless. They force us to evolve...
...planned. In the summer, I'll go to Europe. In the winter, Argentina and Brazil. The big project will be trying to write a book about soccer in Latin America. After all, he's the one who's paying...
...must know something that I haven't discovered yet. He must have sensed that this whole notion of preparing oneself for post-graduation can be very overwhelming. It's as if I now have to plan my entire life in just seven more months. And still write a thesis...
Take the service out of the hands of the police. Make it run all night, from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. Equip it with enough cars and drivers to accommodate the number of students who want to use it. And most important, write the following sentence into the escort service rules: "No persons holding a valid Harvard ID shall be denied transportation to their place of residence or to or from any Harvard building on the Cambridge or Allston campuses." Obviously, a certain, fixed distance, preferably encompassing Cambridge and the nearby outlying areas, should be established so that the escort...
...major earthquake lays waste the human sense of scale. When reporters write about earthquakes, they invariably say that cars and other large objects were "tossed around like toys." Architecture collapses upon itself. The human idea of proportion is outraged in the rifting and shearing...