Word: guess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are all these ideas the and seems laden with them, sometimes Actually. I guess Harvard is not much different from anywhere else, even in this respect, but people talk about it differently, and that can't help but have an effect. And there are all those people who've read books and newspapers and heard records and discussions, and that's a lot of what they know and talk and think about...
...them ever seemed quite home-grown to me--they all depended on larger ideas. The first analysis of Harvard that struck me as just needing experience to understand came not from a professor or book or leaflet but from a photographer--if you want a theory about that, I guess you could associate it with photographers' just recording things they see, not pretending to explain them...
This photographer is small and hairy-looking (some people called him Flea), and I guess he was one of the best potters at Harvard--at least, he once showed me all the pots he'd made, stacked up like the books in a faculty office, and I commented as extensively as I could on which glazes and shapes I liked the best. They all looked pretty much the same to me, but the photographer had liked me ever since I didn't realize he'd gone to prep school, and I guess I was trying to live...
...Well, I used to call her every night, just to ask her why she had done this, but Goodwin would always answer and hang up on me. But then, one morning I called, and Doris answered and said she was busy but she'd call back later. And I guess it was about a half hour later, I was in my office with a German publisher, and she called back. So I excused myself, and I got on the phone, and I said, Doris, I'm very glad and grateful that you called but I just want...
Weird things go on at Fenway--not really weird. I guess, just if you think about them long enough. These drunks get into shouting matches and smart-ass college kids tell them to ennunciate, and when the drunks do the smart-ass college kids stare at the field in triumph and say. "Let's hear it for ennunciation!" "If this were some other country," someone asked me at my last game's seventh-inning stretch, "do you think the Bicentennial banner would seem okay...