Word: clock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then, the alarm clock sounded and Harvard woke...
...comic character, a dark and serious American comic character, like someone out of Twain. Comic in the Checkers speech. Comic in the "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore" farewell following his defeat in the California gubernatorial election in 1962. In the clownish 5 o'clock shadow of the first Nixon-Kennedy television debate. In the "I am not a crook" protest. Lighting fires in the White House fireplace in the middle of summer. Kneeling with Henry Kissinger in prayer. Phone calls to Woody Hayes. Bebe Rebozo. Robert Abplanalp. Comic names, madcap circumstances. The man who exalted...
...before failing to pass. Bok and his advisers have decided to address this pressing moral question by resorting to procedural wrangling. But while the meaningless arguments continue, the efforts at obfuscation increase, and the gamesmanship goes on, in South Africa as Transafrica's Randall Robinson said at Harvard, "the clock continues to tick...
...seven, he would see psychoanalytic patients from eight to twelve. Dinner was punctually at one: at the stroke of the clock, the household assembled around the dining-room table; Freud appeared from his study, his wife sat down facing him at the other end, and the maid materialized, bearing the soup tureen. Then came a walk to restore the circulation, perhaps to deliver proofs or buy cigars. Consultations were at three, and after that, he saw more analytic patients, often until nine in the evening. Then came supper, sometimes a short game of cards with his sister-in-law Minna...
...river houses, of course, don't go back to colonial times, but they still represent the same kind of tradition. Georgian houses like Lowell and Eliot with their courtyards and clock-towers just aren't built anymore. By not living in one of the river houses, I am some-how missing out on part of the Harvard experience...