Word: fluid
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...recent years,leaders in the CSA and the chaplains have consistently focused on outreach to students. To this end, we have maintained a fluid definition of membership whereby persons who checked off "Roman Catholic" on their United Ministries religious interest cards are de facto members (nearly 25 percent of Harvard Undergraduates...
Speaking in a fluid, inspirational tone, Williams recalled Bengal teammate Stanley Wilson's drug incident in Wilson's hotel room the evening prior to Super Bowl XXIII. The NFL suspended the wide receiver for cocaine use the day of the contest...
...extended the bleak stretches of treeless housing tracts, especially inland. It intensified the traditional local conflict between a laid-back resort atmosphere and a stressful development. It imposed urban ills like crime and overcrowded jails. But at the same time it threw open the doors of opportunity, creating a fluid new nonpartisan politics. And, in the absence of blue-blood dynasties like those in Boston or San Francisco, it engendered an unapologetic admiration for new money...
...been, was strong. I remember most vividly his telling us about the shy, morose Henry Adams, who also taught history at Harvard. As the class wound to the end of the hour, and he related to us the end of Adams' life, Clive's voice became more fluid, and also more shaky. He finished with Adams hope that the world might become a place where sensitive souls might look out without horror. His voice now shaky to the point of collapse, Clive pulled his notes to his chest and, eyes shut, rushed out of the room. We, inside the room...
...notice the slip made between history itself--the raw goods--and History, as in the relation of the past by a historian. But the past, because it is no longer in our hands, is a fluid thing; unfortunate as it is, the telling of our past by a historian, often, for all intents and purposes, becomes the past. We can only directly act on what we directly know. This is why history must be told well, told honestly, told vividly. John Clive did this. Now he is dead, and we have only his books...