Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unlike many liberal academics in that fix, Richard Lyman never wavered. As a historian, he had organized one of the country's first Viet Nam teach-ins. But as Stanford's vice president and provost, he put the university's survival first. After the invasion of Cambodia last spring, Lyman sent a personal telegram to President Nixon decrying the move, then opposed halting classes in support of the student strike. He was overruled by the faculty. He also called the police after students occupied an administration building to protest the university's war-related research. Said...
Anyone's puzzle; everyone's novel: follow boyhood step by step, and try to fix the precise instant at which the enchanted became the ordinary. No writer solves the puzzle, which may account for its continued fascination. Novelist Paul Horgan might almost be playing with another man's board and pieces: a small dusty town in the Southwest; a sensitive young narrator who will live to be a writer; the narrator's friend, an athlete who falls to his death from the town's water tower; a rich widow who befriends the narrator and sends...
...used to think about war is that when it got really evil. God would come down and stop it. The day of the eclipse, I prayed that God would blot out the sun and announce that the earth would stay black and cold until the war ended. That would fix them, I thought, Hoo-hah, I thought. Finally I'd have someone really big on my side...
...went into a gray-haired woman's apartment that had an inch-wide crack running across the ceiling. I tried to tell her that with rent control, she could force the landlord to abide by the housing code, She could make him fix the crack...
...started with a little hardware store and was now one of the most influential men in the city. I suppose he's in the ruling class. But he spent his life putting his head and his hands together. He learned to fix things and work with his hands to stay alive. He could have been destroyed by the tooth and claw of petty bourgeois competition. Instead, he saw only one way up and he followed...