Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...abuse doesn't belong on the opinion page of a newspaper. I'm not suggesting that The Crimson censor ideas--the paper should try to promote a lively and sometimes heated clash of views. But Mulkerin's piece represented less a view than an attitude--an attitude, I gather, of arrogant disdain and self-conscious display, of a writer carried off by what he can get away with in print...
...aimless or unfocused. Buoyed by a lush weave of chiming guitars, muted strings and oboe, Stipe's moody vocals float over the music like leaves drifting across a dark pond. The songs, which tend to start slowly and build momentum, shimmer and swirl with bittersweet melodies and riffs that gather rather than hook. Nightswimming, which circles around a cascading piano part, and Find the River, which resonates with a yearning for primordial purity, have the wistful gravity of old snapshots, fleeting moments frozen in the amber glaze of memory...
...said so far would be worth less if I did not say that I've met lots of great people here, both classmates and teachers, whom I've liked a lot. I'll always remember the bittersweetness of this college, that so many people could gather in one place to do such interesting things and yet not enjoy each other more. I would have liked that day, in spite of Leverett Towers, to have looked out that Dunster window and said to my friend, "God, I love this place...
...Often, scientists are not good at explaining what they are doing," says Angier. "I do a lot more than just translate. I have to gather information and use my own mind to put the pieces together...
...Vietnam will live on. Veterans of the war and of the antiwar movement may never entirely make peace with each other. In the year 2000, when they gather at conferences marking the 25th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, they will still be arguing over Khe Sanh and Kent State, Tet and the Moratorium, just as old Union and Confederate soldiers relived and refought Antietam and Gettysburg well into this century, until they too had passed into history. That is the real bottom line on Vietnam: there is no statute of limitations. The war imposed a life sentence...