Word: grow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only be what we are, let's minimize the damage. Let's get our mock campus, our mock shantytown, our mocking concern out of Harvard Yard. Let's be respectful. Let the grass grow. Arthur K. Park...
...converts to such surround-sound effects will undoubtedly grow. "There are connoisseurs, and there are those who are just curious," says Joe Berini, chief engineer for KRON-TV in San Francisco, which went stereo last May. "Soon there will be people who just want to keep up with the Joneses." If only to drown out the noise coming from next door...
...turquoise waters of the gulf. Mile after mile of silver pipes snake across the sands at Jubail, and block after block of beige-colored bungalows fill its residential sector. From Jubail's plants come chemicals and fertilizers as well as iron, aluminum and steel. Planners expect the community to grow from the 30,000 residential workers it now houses to 300,000 by the year...
...another to comfort and reform. He encouraged such ministrations but certainly had no intentions of being changed. The poet chose for his bride Caitlin Macnamara, an Irish woman as flighty and flamboyant as himself, and promised her before their wedding, "You'll never, I'll never let you, grow wise, and I'll never, you shall never let me, grow wise, and we'll always be young and unwise together...
...half his wish. He grew "sadder and older" but no more willing to adapt to the demands of the world than he had been as a teenager. The price paid for this refusal becomes ominously clear in The Collected Letters. It is one thing for Peter Pan never to grow up. A poet with a wife, three children and a dependency on booze cannot afford that luxury. His letters requesting, demanding, begging for money grew increasingly embarrassing. "I am a deserving cause," he insisted. He hit on the scheme of "getting my living-money from people and not from poems...