Word: damns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...call Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. "Head Negro in Charge," and how a Harvard economist was lured to Columbia with $300,000. Such ex post facto explanations serve to enhance perceptions of coherence. But if coherence is such a grand objective to pursue, why does it take so much damn work...
...drink they have. This radically disregulates my own equilibrium, because my reference points for approximate "shoulder level" are now undulating wildly. Slowly, I begin to stagger along, bumping into people with impunity, reveling in the knowledge that at this point into the night, they probably don't give a damn either...
...need to study some. It really depends. A lot of nights I read an hour and then go to bed." (No wonder why "Julie" is so damn happy on Saturday morning...
...even Gloria Steinem is a proponent of the Whore Principle, then is it something I and other young people should accept? The answer to that one still has to be, no. It's pragmatic, it's effective and it may damn well be true, but it's an insidious principle to believe in because it is capable of justifying just about anything in the name of social change...
...always help to go back to the same capitals and play the Saint-Saens cello concerto," he says--a rarefied rut, but a rut nonetheless. "If I can't remember what I did [during a given performance], something is really wrong. I set myself the goal that I damn well better remember at the end of the year what I did, or otherwise I shouldn't be doing it." He shrugs off criticism of his experiments with "lesser" genres: "Where do these designations like 'You are a classical musician, you can't do this' come from? The way people think...