Word: gazing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thus we look away from campus, toward the fall colors of Vermont, the bright lights of New York, the twin town of Providence, R.I. We gaze as Gatsby did to the green light on the end of the dock, but for us, like him, it is inaccessible. It represents a certain freedom that we, as Harvard students, find it difficult to grant ourselves. To do so would mean going against the work ethic that Harvard's Puritan founders successfully instilled in cobblestones of the pavement and the bricks of the buildings--and the more modern ethic of mandatory 60-hour...
Over the few remaining weeks of school, these fears were furthered through conversations with upperclass students. When people asked where I got randomized and I responded, "the Quad," a deathly pall fell over the group. Close friends averted this gaze, each waiting for someone else to speak first. Finally, one would inevitably whisper, "I'm sorry" and touch my shoulder...
...Republicanism and then go further and paint the Republicans themselves, or at least the Gingrichites, as beyond the centrist pale. The Great Repositioning began with a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign that debuted in the summer of 1995 in selected, midsize media markets--away from the national press corps' cynical gaze. The very first spot, aired on June 27, telegraphed the President's strategy: Clinton wouldn't be out-toughed. In that ad a solemn President stared at the camera and said, "Deadly assault weapons off our streets; 100,000 more police on the streets; extend the death penalty. That...
...Fresno on Bill Clinton's 28th trip to California as President, and he is jogging. Bleary reporters gaze as Clinton and his Secret Service detail shrink to dots, then gradually return from the far side of the Leaky Acres Groundwater Recharge Facility, where the President and his entourage can run undisturbed. Their path will take Clinton past a growing gaggle of children and teachers at the Viking Elementary School. They are shouting for the President to come by. But the jogging path and the schoolyard are separated by a chasm of tight security: two cyclone fences, a four-lane highway...
...alert the bears you are coming by talking, singing or wearing a bell on your backpack. I was not singing or ringing when my daughter and I recently hiked in the Los Padres National Forest. Sure enough, we surprised a black bear eating berries. We were too startled to "gaze dreamily on the scenery" as Ehrenreich advised. Nor did I speak firmly or play dead. Instead I cried, "Oh look! A bear!" This technique proved quite effective. The animal was gone so fast all my daughter saw was a flash of rump. RODI LUDLUM Agoura, California Via E-mail...