Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fall, sophomores incapable of doing anything remotely social on campus without bringing along their 16 closest friends. And then, of course, there are the "floaters," students whose friendships split along awkward fault lines, forcing them to jump into the cracks and "float" into a new House without the comfort of familiar faces. As the innards strewn across the Yard indicate, the process is a blast...
Largely composed of single rooms, Currier, forexample, has more difficulty accommodating evenperiodic increases in its number of residentswithout severely affecting student comfort than aHouse primarily composed of suites might...
...recent New York history is any guide, none of us will live to see the resolution of this. The one comfort we can take as we go to our rewards is that this argument, being purely symbolic, will presumably have no effect on traffic...
...trying to improve our society, and our world, are on the same side. Thus it is supremely logical that we should have had three groups work in solidarity at the rally on Tuesday, each of which shares an ideal vision of a world in which people live with safety, comfort, health and dignity. We are proud to share in such a vision, and we were thrilled to see so many people here willing to work toward and support...
...kind of laziness. But in some sense I fancy myself a rebel, actively passive, refusing to submit to Harvard's drive towards definition. Perhaps there is a "subtler eloquence" in my mumbles. Or perhaps my uneasiness with talking comes from the simple fact that I prefer the comfort that ambiguity provides...