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Girl: It restates the negativeness of the universe. The hideous, lonely emptiness of existence--nothingness--the predicament of man, forced to live in a barren, godless eternity, like a tiny flame flickering in an immense void--with nothing but waste, horror, and degradation--forming a useless, bleak straitjacket in a black absurd cosmos...
...would attract hordes of tourists into the already bursting Harvard Square area. Indeed, in announcing the decision, Ted Kennedy referred to a "small and vociferous group that was prepared to entangle" the Cambridge site in lawsuits for years. No such trouble is expected at the U. Mass, site - a barren waterfront strip of filled land, once a city dump, that adjoins the decaying, half-deserted, scabrous Columbia Point housing project. Groundbreaking ceremonies are planned for May 29, which would have been J.F.K.'s 59th birthday...
...Secretary of State Kissinger was able earlier this year to work out a second disengagement accord between Israel and Egypt. For one thing, the Golan is a much smaller area−444 sq. mi., compared with 23,622 sq. mi. for the Sinai. For another, the Heights are not barren desert but an area of green, undulating hills with considerable strategic value. Although some military people say jets and missiles make this kind of thinking obsolete, neither the Syrians nor Israelis think so. The Heights look down on Syria's Damascus plain and dominate Israeli settlements around...
...commercial aired on New York City radio stations, a bank uses a skit to encourage listeners to put their money in savings accounts. In the sketch, a wife berates her husband as they stand in the midst of a barren desert. "You honestly believed you could resell this land at a profit?" she groans. "There's only one person in the world who'd buy it, and you already have." In fact, thousands of others have bought such desolate plots. According to an indictment handed down by a federal grand jury last week, 77,000 such "semiarid desert...
...walk through the barren halls of Nathan M. Pusey Library, you'll see a little yellow square of paper stuck to the wall of each room. The writing on the yellow square in study-room #36, "Install lights. Touch-up metal trim. Install thermostat. General clean-up," is representative of the minor work involved in completing construction of the library...