Word: bother
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bother? Continuing his tour, Mysovsky stops of at the new home of a released inmate of a slave labor camp. The fellow has a doctor's certificate that he is too ill to work, lives lavishly by selling produce from his private plot...
...Instead of a small onion bed he had a real onion plantation, much better than the ones on the kolkhoz. Then there were cucumbers, potatoes . . . every inch was used." Naturally Petunya refuses to help bring in the harvest. " 'If I had a cow I might, but otherwise, why bother?' The chairman understands . . . Every year thousands of acres of hay are lost because kolkhozniki get only 10% of the hay they harvest. In order to feed his own cow he would have to harvest enough for eight or nine-and that's impossible. Each year it gets harder...
...bulging eyes have a keen, built-in intelligence of their own. They select among stimuli and report to the feeble brain only those visual items that are important to a frog's wellbeing. When a cloud drifts slowly over the sun, a frog's eyes do not bother the brain with the meaningless event. But when a bird swoops down, suddenly darkening the sky, special cells in the eyes cry alarm, and the frog plops hastily into the water. Other eye cells report the presence of the small moving objects that usually turn out to be insects...
...Houses are basically similar, then why bother writing separately about them at all? In the first place, the University wants you to have a preference, and does take it seriously into account when assigning you to a House. Although the number of men getting into their first-choice House has declined steeply since the construction of Quincy and the Leverett Towers, last year 55.7 percent of of the Class of 1965 did go where they most wanted to go. Another 12 percent were assigned to their second choice House, and 11.6 per cent received their third choice. Thus...
...that you are a communist agent sent to England in 1918 to set up a communist party. You have no previous contacts. Where do you look for help?" The students are somewhat baffled, not by the question, but by the approach. The answer is perfectly simple, but who will bother to give it? It is too simple to offer a challenge, too straightforward to offer a reward. In a class based on discussion, reward comes in a different form than in a class based on exams. To the Sarah Lawrence girl excitement comes in the form of an original idea...