Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Take a chill pill, Will. Don't get out of whack, Jack. It's all good, Wood. Despite these episodes of trauma, I think probably the best thing to do your first year is not to freak out. Take everything with a grain of salt, and don't be afraid to hear yourself muttering the words, "It's not that big of a deal. I'm 18, and I've got plenty of time left." Believe me, as a senior, just three years ahead of you, I can attest to it. This summer, I have several promising jobs, including (paid...
They say certain people are bigger than life, but Jackie Robinson is the only man I've known who truly was. In 1947 life in America--at least my America, and Jackie's--was segregation. It was two worlds that were afraid of each other. There were separate schools for blacks and whites, separate restaurants, separate hotels, separate drinking fountains and separate baseball leagues. Life was unkind to black people who tried to bring those worlds together. It could be hateful. But Jackie Robinson, God bless him, was bigger than all of that...
Whether you're scared of the Y2K bug, psyched for a new beginning in a world where time starts at zero or afraid that the universe will end when the clock strikes midnight, next New Year's Eve is shaping up to be the Main Event. (A note to all you mathematicians--yes, the new millennium does technically begin in 2001, but the apocalyptic nature of all those zeroes has us focusing on 2000 as the de facto turning point...
...beginning of the indoor season, co-captain Heather Hanson said she was afraid that the team, only about 40 athletes in number, had to spread itself thin...
...Quentin Compson, confused, disenchanted rowers ultimately propelled by our own heightened consciousness to a dire end (near the Weekes footbridge no less)? Or J. Alfred Prufrock (coming and going, speaking of the Michelangelo we had learned so assiduously in our Literature and Arts B class), worried about physical appearance, afraid to eat a peach? Or were we more like Amory Blaine, our reliance on the Office of Career Services indicative of "a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars, fought...