Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Starting at five months, as the baby becomes alert and exploratory, the merger begins to break down. The baby's growing independence is tinged with uncertainty and loss. "Peekaboo" is a serious game; the baby toys with separateness without fearing that he or she will be abandoned. In "Catch Me," a separation game found in many cultures, the child creeps quickly away, looking back over its shoulder to make sure the mother is in pursuit. The child both wants to be caught and wants to escape...
...embarrassed by the applause. "I love it when people cheer, but I never know what to do," says Glass. His ensemble has no polish and even bumbles its bows, but Glass feels that the best act is no act. "I don't want to kowtow to popular culture - break my instruments onstage...
...giving him time to start on some 400 pages of intelligence reports and option papers that flow past him daily. He is often at his desk by 6:45 a.m., and ends the day at 8 or 9 p.m., after eating dinner alone at his desk. His only break is for lunch. Sometimes Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin, the only ambassador so favored, comes by for a noontime sandwich. The two doff their coats and eat at a small round table in Brzezinski's office. Essentially a loner with few real friends in the Administration, Brzezinski spends little time with...
...time, Seger was Detroit's best-kept secret, a rocker who commanded a fanatic home-town following but kept missing a big national break. He had a national hit single in 1969 with his hard-driving Ramblin 'Gamblin 'Man, but trouble with his band kept him from touring to promote it properly. By the time he had finished his third album, Seger, with half a dozen local hits behind him, was back to living on $7,000 a year...
Harvard's real estate business has a dual nature. The University tries to balance "landbanking" with its efforts to earn revenue, or at least break even, from the rest of its holdings. When Harvard landbanks, it buys property with an eye to razing it, creating a site for construction of new University facilities. Such property is usually permitted to run down, because there's no sense in paying steep maintenance costs if the building will eventually be torn down. Landbanking can potentially turn an owner into a slumlord; the building is only secondary to the property value...