Word: got
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Monrad would know. Recently, he got one of his fellow graduates to give a chair to Harvard...
...got not a single compact disc. Not even a C.D. player. All I own are L.P.'s that I play on my turntable...
...records can turn up in such interesting places. When I was little I got a Chipmunks song on a red colored single in a Captain Crunch box, I found the Beatles' "Here Comes The Sun" in an issue of Time magazine, and they handed out copies of "Up Where We Belong" at a screening of An Officer and A Gentleman. Of Course, these were all soft and fragile pieces of vinyl not meant to last a lifetime, maybe only worthy of one smudgy play, but they were still nice surprise samplers in odd corners of culture. The soul...
...said before, I don't mean to sound like an old fuddy duddy who'd rather walk than take a motor car or who'd rather write long, languishing letters than call (although at least the latter is true). I just think we've got to realize that some people like L.P.'s even if they're turning into musical neanderthals. C.D. players are kind of like car phones or answering machines with remote call-in--sure they're an improvement, an advance, a fine addition to any upwardly mobile life. But they're heartless. They force us to evolve...
...create a need where it didn't exist before. Private people are beginning to feel that they need to know who called them from far away, and business people are beginning to feel they need to keep chatting with clients by phone while they're driving, soon you've got to have these things to just barely keep up with the Joneses...