Word: abyss
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...awakened by a phone call early one morning in 1968, and a friend in the White House told me that Bobby had been shot. We plunged back into that abyss of mourning not only for a life lost and a family devastated again, but for a promise never fulfilled in our national life...
...binding the Harvard-Radcliffe Class of 1999 together are about to be decimated by an uncaring fate. While life in school-and life at Harvard, in particular-has been a defining period for all of us, life after school seems to be a giant leap off into a great abyss. So it's not surprising that so many of us are asking, "School will be done with-why not simply burn our bridges behind...
...even for those of us commencing the rest of our lives with barely a plan, let alone a career or "consulting job that I'm holding for two years until B-school," the abyss needn't be so deep. Hell, you could always move to San Francisco, ever a haven for the aimless-and maybe that's not a bad idea to begin with. Despite Harvard's emphasis to the contrary, uncertainty is no vice. You'll be surprised just how many seniors have no clue what they'll be doing next year. One of us hopes...
...make the "Alumni Notes" section of next spring's Harvard Magazine because, whether you just spent the last two hours vomiting sangria in a Barcelona gutter or making $6,000 on savvy on-line trades, what will matter-the things that will let you wade across the abyss instead of sinking 20,000 leagues under-are your relationships...
...cream and lots of nuts last week at the Dairy Queen in Manchester, N.H. As the candidate's wife, she could count on pretty pictures. But this was her Opening Day, and the lenses were aiming at her tonsils. "Well," she said, opening her mouth and leaping into the abyss, "here goes...