Word: chair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever she did, it sure worked well, for David arrived at their door five minutes after them, after having somehow surreptitiously followed them back to their room. He quickly seated himself on the black wooden Harvard chair and Adrian prepared to leave the room soon afterwards saying she had to meet somebody. She figured that Louise could deal with David. The minute he appeared she had sized him up as a real loser who thought he would get a head start on the rest of his classmates by courting Louise. Besides, he was Louise's responsibility since she had been...
...last stray wisp of hair, and finally, pleased with the results, they were ready to leave. Weekend meals were proving to be more interesting for Louise than Adrian. They provided her with the opportunity to flirt with real men, not those cloddy freshmen who were always bumping into your chair in the Union with a loaded tray and spilling milk all over the jacket you had hanging over the back of your chair...
...Louise had plunged right into her routine, asking him questions, smiling at just the right moments, holding herself up straight, sneaking in a little giggle here and there, staring captivating, trance-like right into Martin's eyes and finally, at the end of the meal, leaning back in her chair, with a lighted cigarette between her fingers. Adrian found the whole scene revolting. After all, she thought, it was noon on a Sunday. Wasn't it time to stop thinking about men until the weekend? Wasn't Harvard going to be more than one long Friday night...
...only I had an opening to get out of this chair, I would be back on my farm so smartly you wouldn't see me for dust...
Sagan, 42, occupant of a chair in astronomy at Cornell University, is not a neuroscientist. But he writes about the brain with uncommon sense and even humor. With many social critics, he recognizes that human intelligence is the main source of mankind's present crises. With Albert Schweitzer, he believes that "only a worldview which accomplishes all that rationalism did has a right to condemn rationalism...