Word: eating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that ambitious. I like to have money. I am secure, I eat well, I don't worry, but in the process of making money I destroy myself, I really...
Seated in a wooden breakfast alcove, Joni, her roommate John Guerin and I eat three meticulously cooked courses while the spiced apple dumplings cool on the sideboard. "You should try this," she says of a bottle of red wine. "We always drink Château Margaux. It costs $12 but it tastes like a $60 bottle...
...morning. I, together with most undergraduates, diligently keep up on the facts and figures of the deepening recession in this country. We read in the New York Times about the decrease in the average American's purchasing power; we hear on the radio about families in inner cities who eat dog food to survive...
...these abstract facts to seep in. Harvard is a secure enclave in a shaky society, a verdant oasis in a parched economy. Come 5:30 or 6:00 we close our magazines to head downstairs to the dining hall, where we are ladled out as much as we can eat. We put aside our newspapers to run to the library to check out a book for an upcoming exam. We turn off the radio as we hurry to Harvard Square to do some errands...
...easy to convince yourself that the niceties you depend on should fade away so irrevocably. I enjoy listening to Beethoven on my stereo. I like to eat hot corned beef sandwiches. And there is nothing nicer than the feel of a shiny, newly-purchased copy of Keats. And yet the new austerity could produce some benefits, not so obvious at first, but no less long-ranging in their impact. Romantic asceticism would no longer be a viable philosophical alternative, and middle-class youths like myself would no longer feel compelled to renounce their roots. Americans would be a thinner, trimmer...