Word: dozed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...excusable if libraries or other study spaces were Harvard student's places of learning. Rooms are rightfully the place of choice for schedule and fashion reasons--in whose library can you read in pajamas and slippers and have an alarm set to wake you if you happen to doze off? And besides, House libraries and those in and around the Yard do not themselves have such good lighting--beyond the Lamont reference room, the light fixtures provide more ambience than illumination. We can't read by mood alone...
First, though, Handel took a few preliminary questions. "What is Werner Erhard's role?" someone asked. Handel simply described him as the man who developed and sold the technology behind Landmark. "What if I doze off?" "Then you doze off," Handel replied with a shrug. A visibly nervous woman stepped up to the mike. "You said this was going to be a roller-coaster. But I'm afraid of roller-coasters. I never get on them." "You will learn how to stop letting fear hold you back," Handel reassured...
...reign of Bill the Bridgebuilder, Americans heard muffled partisan voices that did not seem entirely focused or even important (Clinton having artfully stolen many of the Republican issues). A lot of Americans, without the prospect of the noose to concentrate the mind, passed through the political months in a doze. They ignored the conventions and the presidential debates in record numbers, and given the low nutritional content of those events, may have been right...
First, when I say lighting, I don't just mean how bright it is in the lecture hall; experienced sleepers can doze on the surface of the sun. What I mean is the ratio of the lighting level on the stage/podium as compared to the seating area. It's hard to look from a well-lit place to a dark place; the converse is quite easy. So if the room is dark and a bunch of stage lights are pointing at the professor, it's beddy-bye time...
...looking for the same pizzazz and energy that has lit the Wang Center's stage throughout the 1995-96 season, your best bet is to wait until next year, and let "The Sleeping Beauty" slowly ease back into a doze...