Word: window
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...during exam period. The worlds of fact and doctrine ("Birds cannot actually fly; they are merely prodigious leapers!") collide with the grim fantasies spawned by anxiety ("Perhaps there will be an earthquake and we won't have to take exams"). One sits at a chair and looks out the window. Cambridge does not even have the grace to be covered with snow. ("What if Harry Levin actually wrote the plays of Shakespeare?"). Sulphur-laden ice spreads like cancer over the Charles and Roast Beef Specials cost 60 cents ("If the Atlantic rose a few inches, Boston would be devastated...
Most people disappear into their rooms; they close the window and pray, pray that some knowledge will join the carbon dioxide floating around the room; pray that maybe, just maybe, there'll be another "act of God"--a Blizzard of '80 if you will--and Harvard will shut down. The snow refuses to fall. They emerge at meal times, lingering over the lime sherbet, going back for more Sauerbraten, saying "yes" to the pureed squash. Anything to postpone...
Just back from the last of his international journeys in 1979, the Pope strode to the window of his Vatican apartment and addressed the waiting crowd in the chill night air of St. Peter's Square. "As Jean-Paul Sartre says, 'You have to know when to stay home,' " John Paul II told the throng, his face creasing with the luminous smile that has become his trademark. "We have earned a good rest, both...
...Federal Reserve provides its members with various services, such as check clearing, wire transfer of funds and even emergency delivery of $5 bills. Members can also borrow money at the Fed's "discount window," but the price is high in terms of idle reserves. The fact that some big commercial banks offer many of the other services at a modest fee is encouraging smaller banks to forgo access to the discount window and leave the system. When Chicago's Oak Park Trust & Savings Bank withdrew its $9 million reserves from the system last May, its earnings rose...