Word: actually
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...occasionally self-congratulatory content. It is the product of many minds; contradictions on basic issues have survived unresolved in the final version. The response of the FAS community will help determine how these disagreements are untangled and acted upon In addition, the Report itself legislate nothing. In order for actual changes to take place in the GSAS...
...life resembles a far-fetched hard-luck version of the actual Willie Nelson saga, but it is first and foremost a rolling, highly entertaining chronicle of its own. I all of all kinds of deadpan golden nuggets of humor--greasy, love-to-hate-'em Williams; imperfect but irresistable heroes; hard drinking, good friends, good loving, heartache, strumming acoustic guitar accompaniment--the tale can sound too much like your generic hit country song. But as Doc sings, "We write what we live And we live what we write." And Bud Shrake's off-beat, unpretentious script and Man Rudolph's even...
...little Eves. And you Adams, too. I'm Muscles the snake. Don't worry, I don't bite, except in the wallet. I'm one of "Michael's Pets." We're stuffed toys based on actual animals that live at Michael Jackson's house. For $22 you can buy me or half a dozen other furry knockoffs from the Jackson menagerie. Michael went along with this deal because one buck for every animal sold goes to a charity he picks. And six of you lucky buyers will get to visit the master and his real pets...
Thousands of us went to hear Jesse Jackson speak in the Harvard Yard in early April, and were more affected by his angry, cadent rhythms than by his actual words. "Hooray, hooray," we all shouted, basking in the sunshine and the communal glow of self-congratulation. After the speech a few hundred of us, still in the grip of moral ecstasy, stood before President Bok's office and shouted things. An all-night vigil began. It rained, and began to get cold; a few, huddled under umbrellas, stayed the night and then departed the next day. Almost three weeks later...
...afternoons. As Evelyn Waugh wrote, "Nobody wants to read other people's reflections of life and religion and politics, but the routine of their day, properly recorded, is always interesting. "The reader of diaries and letters often finds an unexpected fascination in the mundane, in the record of an actual life as it is being lived...