Word: gees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this romanticized view. You climb to the top in college--well gee, that'll happen in the real world. The closer I come to some of the grim aspects of this type of life, I ask myself, is this the sacrifice I want to make," Potok says. "The being hungry for a while doesn't worry me. If the passion's there, you'll get there. The difficulty is doubting the passion." Potok thinks she may work with an acting teacher in Israel or return to America and head to Chicago...
...System," "On Race," etc.), Morris stages an uncritical celebration: Mayor Fiorello La Guardia gets six paragraphs, the city's restaurants get seven, and "Smelly" Kelly, who sniffed out gas leaks along the IND subway tracks, gets one. Morris, whose customary voice is that of cool detachment, allows a gee-whiz tone to mar the text: "Where else, in 1945, could you have your photograph taken by an unmanned machine (the Photomaton), or go to a theatre on the fiftieth floor of a skyscraper (the Chanin Building), or for that matter get an electric shock just from touching a door handle...
...another Harvard student interviewed by The Crimson noted that the council shouldn't throw campus-wide parties since the houses already do that. Gee. I guess one party per house per year is enough for Harvard students. The council humbly apologizes...
...three networks that nothing is sacrosanct about the nightly news show. Asked if he would still like to be anchoring the CBS Evening News five years from now, Rather, 55, answers quickly, "If God is good to me and with a little luck, yes." Ten years from now? Hesitation. "Gee, I don't know. It's a young person's game." On the chair next to him in his office is a small needlepoint pillow with the saying ALWAYS IS NOT FOREVER...
...used to go to the Classics departmentlibrary and look at the volumes and say gee isthat all there is, but when I want to deal withit, it is very different. The level of detail isso complex it boggles the mind," says Crane, whonever took an undergraduate course in computershere...