Word: normally
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...administration pushed through with the usual September rituals despite the barracks atmosphere around Harvard. Normal bureaucratic hindrances bloomed into paralyses with the huge number of students...
...seriousness of the returning soldiers coupled with their family obligations took them away from the normal social circles at Harvard. The administration encouraged the veterans to relax, and not without a certain wistfulness, noted a falloff...
...chase them one by one, but it's not very cost-effective. The more profound approach is to drain the swamp. So we are draining the swamp. We are in Israel. We are telling them, now we are neighbors and we behave the same way that any normal country would behave. Can you imagine the Germans trying to launch Katyushas at Strasbourg? The French will not respond? Try to imagine what will happen in the U.S. if some enemy would bombard Chevy Chase or Silver Springs...
...disservice to their authors to dwell only on the sad finality of these letters full of playful language and good cheer, even under the most harrowing circumstances. After all, most were responses written in the glow of morale boosted by receiving news from home that life was still normal there, that Dad was still priding himself on the tomatoes bursting ripe in the vegetable garden, that Little Brother had just smacked his first stand-up double or that Sis had been accepted at the local university. The mundane details of life in the U.S.--the score of Friday night...
...move to do so--then is it the chairs that do the sitting? Is theirs the seat of government, power? Are they "musical" chairs (the tall backs look like tuning forks)? Do they suggest that anyone could be in any chair at any time? Do they represent the normal and unthinkable at once--people at work, going through their routines, sitting at their desks, in chairs...