Word: floorful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when he is old enough, Captain Midlife may call a convention of his words, spread them on the floor before him and write an autobiography. It would begin with a description of the Captain as a boy, when he lived beside a park into whose thicket of dark trees he would peer at night from the height of his apartment and search for the love who awaited him there. Exactly what she looked like he could not say at the time. She was exquisitely beautiful, he was certain of that: gentle and intelligent, quiet, stubborn, funny, kind. Sometimes he imagined...
...that differentiates him from his old-line WASP father, McCoy is a patrician with an all-consuming greed. Not merely to be rich, but to be the richest. The most. For as McCoy knows, it's not the money, but the control that he seeks on the trading floor, in his 20-room apartment, in the pied-a-terre of his mistress...
Chrisha's grandmother Bea Cudmore followed the procession to the new building's sixth floor, snapping pictures for a scrapbook she said she was making for Chrisha. She referred to the room Chrisha was leaving as the "miracle room," saying that for the children who stay there, the room is their "last chance...
...term. The remarks by Ms. Grantham and Rutter quoted in the piece are gross distortions and misrepresentations of what I actually said in the course. These are issues far too complicated to sort out in the pages of the Crimson. I have always been open to questions from the floor in lecture and to discussions after class, and spend most of my office time with the door open to any student who wants to speak with me. I find it astonishing and saddening that the students with complaints did not raise their voices in one of these forums, and instead...
...rotunda is actually a lovely room," said Director of Harvard Dining Services Frank J. Weissbecker. "But the Venetian blinds were rotting. The floor was dangerous with ruts. And blinds are terrible dirt accumulators," he said...