Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This walk meant a lot to us, so even when it started dismally, we didn't think of turning back. Over the bridge to Washington from Virginia, where Tinsley lived when that was his habit, the wind blew like hell and the name placard flapped around, twisting and turning. It gave up on that after a while and then just hung there doing nothing at all. And I froze on that bridge...
...this society as a way of escaping such labor. In the aftermath of the enlargement of the war this spring and of the murders at Kent State and Jackson State, it was no doubt necessary that regular university operations be modified or suspended. But this must not become a habit. I have a further thought. Few things, surely, could trouble Mr. Nixon less than the knowledge that Harvard (or universities in general) were inoperative...
...older under the old system of eldest first. Thus, even if you were 4-A in Great Neck last year, there was a good chance you would not be taken if you were young enough. They had more 1-A's than they needed. The board has the habit of making it easy for men to get deferments as long as there are more men than slots to be filled. By giving deferments they really weren't doing any favors. As you approached 26 it became more and more difficult to get a 2-A, for they were drafting...
...those two cousins of the Columbidae family. In his translation from an Italian poem, the poet pounds the swarms of pigeons in the city of Venice that are, he says, "besmirching crowned heads, defiling brows and memorials . . . mocking the monuments which overshadow us." Besides, he complains, he abhors their habit of dumping "corrosive superfluities suddenly on the heads of pedestrians...
However, the ivy caterpillar population has the nasty habit of peaking in June-just about the time when the old grad population peaks in the Yard. A year or two without spraying there could defoliate the ivy for several Commencements...