Word: emptier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interview last week he noted that because graveyards are not more prominent features in the American landscape "we are not reminded enough [of death]; we live more diluted, emptier lives." If people are aware that their life will end, Kosinski believes they will live with "more dramatic awareness that every moment is what life is about...
...freshmen were better adjusted to college when they lived among upperclassmen than when they were homogeneously separated, the theory that the Fox plan will help freshmen is dubious. The plan also crowded still more bodies into the already overcrowded South Yard dorms, among others, and made the Quad even emptier than it was last year. Veteran Quaddies will tell you that the place just ain't the same without all those little freshmen running around, playing frisbee, unloading station wagons full of furniture, experiencing serious neuroses, wonking for classes before January, and doing all those other cute freshmen things that...
...were more than a game. The added edge to reporters' questions came from a frustrated feeling that here at last the candidates should be pinned down. As John Chancellor said in a recent speech, "I don't think I've ever seen a pettier campaign, an emptier campaign, a campaign so lacking in a discussion of real issues." Even in the debates, the candidates had narrowed the range of things they intended to say no matter how a question was put; they were, until the last and best debate, often demeaningly petty; they felt free to parrot...
...completely overhauled. The change should be to allow each rooming group to choose their top-choice house, and to allow free changing of decisions until each group is in their most preferred house. As a result, Lowell House would be more crowded, but not too crowded, since a slightly emptier Mather House would then seem very attractive. Everyone would get the chance to maximize their utility be choosing the best tradeoff between the house they desire and conditions of crowding. Gone would be freshmen's complaints about being stuck at Radcliffe--everyone there would be there by choice. Gone would...
Canton is hot enough so things close down in the afternoon, and it stays open later at night than most Chinese cities. So when I first realized I was lost there were lots of people out. But as I wandered in circles the streets became emptier, until at last there were just people who'd brought out mattresses to escape the heat and an occasional cart, collecting night-soil to take to the surrounding countryside. But I had a land-mark that kept me from getting more lost--a violinist, up on the fourth floor of the building I kept...