Word: fours
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next stage dozens of donors were waiting to be screened by four or five nurses. There was no line. Instead, people just sat spaced out in two long rows until they felt they had really waited their turn. I did some light reading and struck up a conversation with the man who had been warming up. He told me how he missed his blood appointment that morning and had skipped lunch "to get this over with." He said he was an old pro at giving blood, and had once given two pints within three weeks. After he described in detail...
Monday night my birthdate came up second out of 366, smashing my hope of painlessly escaping a system whose purpose and methods appall me. I had seen the opening: parlaying four years of an elitist deferment with an unreachably high birthdate number, which would carry me until my liability ended. Instead, a random grab at pile of capsules has permanently cemented the alliance between my self-interest and my most detached political beliefs. I think draft resistance would have remained my political position after it no longer had to be my personal position. As it is. I'm not given...
SARAH HYDE: You have been directing plays at Harvard for four years. Looking back, can you detect any ways in which you have developed...
...because this immediately suggests a "finished" performance. With our show, we have gone through a process of discovery, and each night we will present what we have discovered so far. Ideally, I would like to continue rehearsals for four more months, in order to condense Chekhov's play into something which is really the most intense essence of the thing, something which would only take an hour and a half at the most to perform. Much of what the audience will see is only a means to that end, but I hope that in a few places there are flashes...
...response to a four-meal "peace fast" proposed by the Harvard Moratorium Committee for December 12 and 13, University officials have issued an unprecedented offer for rebates on meals not eaten in the University dining halls...