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...thought of wine and grinned to herself. The world is a broken Ripple bottle. Yes, yes, a ripped apart Ripple bottle. Some still glistening fragment attracted her eye and absorbed her. Timeless. Rhythm of timelessness; timeless ocean waves. Her endless drift of unconcerned thinking. A sailing without a goal, or known beginning. A hum started out of her sea-faring self; a song of bright, free ships...
...life out of the people who exist somehow in its heat. As she becomes more engrossed in her confession, and her humble gratitude, the sun melts and pours down to her hard kneecaps; rusty and almost frozen, down on the unheated wooden floor. Steam and smoke from its melting drift upward and wrap themselves about her loins and her heart; finally centering and being released in the hot tears that fall from her eyes with each deep intake of breath and sharp gasp of sweetly curdled praying words...
UNDERGRADUATES DO NOT have much trouble getting lost in the Harvard Department of Economics. With over 100 students entering the major yearly, a person can easily drift through the department for three years without ever attracting any notice. The department isn't primarily oriented toward undergraduate education. Senior faculty members see themselves as professional economists rather than educators--almost every one of them listed in Who's Who (that is, most of the tenured faculty choose to call themselves economists and not teachers. Junior faculty have relatively light teaching loads so that they can do the research that...
...politics does not necessarily equal good music. What Ono hasn't learned is that an honest verbal expression of self does not constitute art unless the writer is honestly artistic. The words must capture a mood, an image, an idea with feeling to which others may grab hold to drift along with the song. How can you get excited about a lyric like...
Insofar as anyone cared, popular reaction to President Bok's using his annual report to the Overseers for a discussion of undergraduate education wasn't favorable. In the last year Harvard witnessed the occupation of Massachusetts Hall, a long dispute over graduate student aid, an inalterable drift through unpalatable proposals to reform student disciplining methods, and declining income from the Federal government. Bok discussed none of these, but concentrated on undergraduate education. In the context of the last few years--which occupations, controversies and the Washington connection have helped define--his performance was a descent into noncontroversial platitudes while ducking...