Word: bentely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like other well-laid plans in Rosegrant's life, this ambition was soon replaced. The summer after her sophomore year, she decided to give her ecological bent "one last try," studying plants and animals at a site in Concord. But the vote for the life of a naturalist was a unanimous "No" among her psychic constituents. "I couldn't pick up a book and study mountain gorrillas because it didn't interest me anymore," she says of that turn-around summer...
...formed to defend the University against students hell-bent on destruction of the school. It was broadly defined precisely because it needed the widest possible mandate to destroy the anti-war, anti-ROTC movement during the late sixties and early seventies. With few minor changes, the "war time" powers of the CRR remain today...
...pronounced mud-dle). Then, in 1979, Blank and newly formed Infocom released Zork I, the first of the Zork trilogy of interactive fiction games, with a parser that recognizes adjectives, prepositions and pronouns as well as nouns and verbs. The improved parser permits players to display their literary bent by using more complex commands. Zork I, for instance, will respond to more expansive instructions (example: pick up the rusty knife and put it in the sack). Partly as a result, Zork I became the best-selling disk-based game of all time (500,000 copies...
...Navasky was back at work Martha's Vineyard the summer home of a lot of left-wing intellectuals is also known as the single most difficult place on the Atlantic coast for a non property owner to get to the beach--a place where renowned writers of a progressive bent use their gifts to compose No Trespassing signs. I could imagine Navasky in the thick of the story--interviewing disgruntled day-trippers who had been driven off the beach at gunpoint by civil liberties lawyers and contributors to the New York Review of Books, burrowing in courthouse records to find...
Pleasantly idiosyncratic interludes like this one are far too few, however, and the only character whose plot line is nearly as interesting as Ted's is Jason's. Child of assimilation-bent parents, he doesn't come to terms with his Jewish ancestry until he's nearly through law school (Harvard, of course). His life in Israel doemonstrates that not only is there life after Harvard, there's life after Harvard Law--but remember, this is fiction...