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...matter: new Irans will keep popping up (in our minds) regardless. The empirical world can do little to dampen the appeal of metaphor, since it deals in what Historian Michael Oakeshott calls "practical" or "didactic history," a species of pseudo history in which what passes for analysis is the waving of icons...
...protestors wended their way through the streets outside the Houses, spectators peered out of windows and came out of their entries. Eggs thrown by spectators on Mt. Auburn St. did not dampen the mood of the marchers, who carried signs as chanted' "Hey Hey, Ho Ho, U.S. troops have...
...themselves of entry into the most selective and presumably serviceable graduate and professional schools. A large and apparently somewhat increasing number will step out with the baccalaureate, and see whether they can get a job. If they have the security of a craft or skill, I think this would dampen the anxiety sufficiently so that students would feel free to pursue an education for a long lifetime rather than an education desperately tailored for the first working Monday after Commencement. It should be possible to set a period of time aside, for example, by having courses taught in a modular...
...lines. Everything curves. The world has an end but no boundary. It is like an orange with the rind pared down to nothing and the pips taken out. Within and around that imaginary sphere which remains of the orange, intangible forces wave in every direction. Some waves bump and dampen each other's motion until they have no movement left. But their energy is not lost. It goes into other waves which may bump and merge and thereby strengthen each other. Electrons and protons form and attract each other. They create atoms of matter, the atoms molecules, the molecules...
...perenially tough Wildcats raised their record to 5-1 with the win, while the Crimson's fell to 1-2. But not even Harvard's second loss of the still-young season could dampen Crimson spirits...