Word: cold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard tends to be a school of fiercely independent individuals. Admitting weakness is tantamount to admitting defeat. The result is a need for solitary solutions for coping with the environment and imposed ignorance of the cold system. Students struggle with personal crises brought on by the Harvard system throughout their stays on campus. The crisis could be rejection by a particular club after many months of comping, or it might be a sense of loneliness because the individual student lacks a desperately desired confidant or significant other...
Drinking ameliorates the unpleasantness, at least momentarily, by mushing our minds and allowing us to forget about all of our schoolwork and responsibilities and at least take a stab at enjoying the prime years of our life. For many people, remaining happy in such a cold and dark climate is a challenge. There is a reason the Russians are famous for drinking so much vodka. Drinking warms a body and helps a mind forget the cruelties of nature...
...rendering," or grinding up, cows and feeding them to other cows. "Now doesn't that concern you all a little bit, right here, hearing that?" she asked, eliciting a roar of approval from the audience. With that, Oprah uttered the now famous words: "It has just stopped me cold from eating another burger!" Then a representative of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association conceded that, yes, there was "a limited amount" of feeding cattle to cattle occurring in the U.S. Taken together, all that had an Oprah-size impact. Cattle prices plummeted the day it aired, and kept heading south...
...sufferers than Lotto's Portrait of a Young Man, circa 1530. It depicts its subject with sallow face, deep dark eyes and Hamlet-black clothes, idly toying with the pages of an unread book; drying rose petals are scattered on the table next to a watching lizard, emblem of cold-bloodedness...
Maynard's personal touch tends to be just the thing for the cold or flu you're not quite ready to take to the forbidding atmosphere of University Health Services...