Word: falling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mood music that everybody hears, and this commonality is both its strength and its downfall. As a topic that is available to everyone, we tend to bring it up when there is absolutely no other common ground. On the other hand, when we're all experiencing the same gorgeous fall day, we're all starting from the same place. There is something gratifying in the communal appreciation of a great day, the collective distaste for a nasty one and the shared experience of the singular atmosphere created by a light, warm rain...
...didn't come to Harvard for the Massachusetts weather, but I grew up on it, and I'm prepared to come to its defense. The best weather around is the kind that's on its way out, the kind you know you're going to miss. The perfect fall day, smelling like leaves and demanding a sweater, never fails to do it for me, and I'll take the first warm breezy days of spring over a thousand days of southern California sunshine. Actually, I don't want a thousand days of any weather, which is what's particularly great...
...ample cache of bankable practical skills--I can put together a mean PowerPoint presentation and can do basic arithmetic with the best of them. But when it comes to answering the really important questions--how to live and what to love--I'm afraid that my performance would fall in the bottom percentiles...
...poetry that belongs in your eighth grade writing workshop class? Or worse yet, your creative genius doesn't conform to what those mainstream people can tolerate. Fear not! Those talented and creative Harvard kids run/start up so many different publications, focusing on anything and everything and whatever might fall in between that you'd have to try really hard to not find the forum you're looking for. While we can't help you with your prose or verse, we can help you find inspiration and figure out where you want to be read. And you know what they always...
...come from the Midwest, and in the Midwest you play regular ball. With candlepin, it feels like you're playing a kids game. And then they don't even fall down...