Word: grows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that, despite the fateful presence of Mrs. Tabor T.B., a birth is occurring in his home rather than the death he suspects. Along the way he flashes a prose that is occasionally quite memorable, as when he explains why any boy in the valley would want to grow up to be a miner: "There was, you understand, the ambition for the walk of the miners in corduroy trousers, with yorks under the knees to stop the loose coal running down into your boots and the rats from running up inside your trousers, and the lamp...
...President was hoarse and apparently tired at first, but he grow relaxed and expensive as he spoke. After his speech he leaned over the platform and shook perhaps 154 hands in about two minutes...
...keynote of Harvard is competition. From the first days of comparing college board scores in the Freshman Union, the undergraduate is placed in opposition to his symbolic siblings. These rivalries are compounded by honest feelings of brotherhood that grow between classmates. One envies, like Cain. One must win the approval, over others, of House Masters, professors, and activity leaders. To win out, it pecomes perpetually necessary to do in one's brothers. Thus, while the primary emotion of the Cain complex is envy, its secondary emotion is guilt...
JAKE: People grow old, things change, people walk through the streets of a city. They open doors, prepare meals, and suddenly they're in the bathroom and everything's green...
...agonizing self-doubts and despair. "Time goes by," he noted, "reputation increases, ability declines." "The little urchin makes a couple of feeble hops on one leg without falling down," he wrote, "and is filled with admiration at his dexterity, doubly so, because there are onlookers. Do we ever grow up?" He was unsparingly self-critical: "If you don't speak ill of others more often than you do, this certainly isn't from any lack of desire. But you know that malice only gives you elbowroom when dispensed in carefully measured doses...