Word: creams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under Adler's spell, the great ideas take on palpable form. To make them concrete, he talks about triangles and squares, black swans and schnauzers, vanilla ice cream and boxes of ball bearings...
...That's right! But ice cream gives me pleasure, a very soft pillow when I'm tired gives me pleasure, a cold shower on a hot day gives me pleasure. Is it the same kind of pleasure?" Soon Adler gets Thomas to agree that beauty pleases the mind as well as the senses. But how does the mind judge beauty? "It's all subjective...
...diet would put a trucker to shame. Several truckers, in fact. Each day the Swede tucks in the equivalent of 15 eggs, 6½ Ibs. of potatoes, 41/2 Ibs. of pork and liver, one package of bacon, four steaks, twelve slices of roast beef, two quarts of ice cream, 1 Ib. of butter, several loaves of bread, 20 quarts of tea and light beer...
Granted, the Columbia is a yummy public relations cream puff. But I am not cheering. What good is space wizardry if our home planet becomes unfit for life -animal, vegetable or human...
Despite the responsibilities of co-captain, she relates that the good still prevail as much as the hard work does in practice. "At the Ivy tournament we had our rooms ransacked by the squad from Brown--they took items and knocked over furniture. We decided to get even and cream them: not only on the field the next day but also in their rooms that night. We sneaked into their rooms and sprayed whipped cream all over them. As we left, a few members of their team managed to catch us in the elevators, and took the spray cans away...