Word: hang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pews wearily hang on out of love for what the church can be, but we feel so helpless when confronted by the near monolithic power structure that panics at any bold thought or new approach to the many problems we face...
Adrian Harris and Louise Cart-wright arrived at their spacious shell in Hollis on the first day dorms opened in September. Things began well enough as the two of them unpacked their belongings and decided, compatibly where to hang their impressionist prints and ivy pots, and agreed on where to place the beds, desks and chairs. There was not a whole lot of room for creativity, but the process occupied most of the first week-end of freshman week and provided ample time for the two to discuss their families, high schools and become acquainted. Adrian and Louise discovered that...
Free Lunch Program: Here's the deal. You register, right? You get your Bursars card. It doesn't have your picture on it, right? So you go down to Central Square, hang out for a while, and all of a sudden a guy comes up to you, asks you if you've got a dime for a cup of coffee. No, you tell him, but you've got the next best thing. How would he like to eat in the Harvard dining halls for the rest of the year for just 20 dollars? It's a deal! he says...
...open sesame to friendship. Most of all he hoped it would mean women would be instantly attracted to him without his having to get to know them. The name did arouse the interests of some women at home in Vermont. When he was home for vacations he would hang out at one of the few nightclubs in town and try to casually work into conversations the name of the school he attended. A few were impressed and talked to him more, but always when he got them alone they would discover he could not relax and talk to them...
Lindbergh was a thorough professional, but he seemed to suggest a wonderful elan, a sense that anything is possible. That deep urge for individual adventure remains. Sometimes it merely involves robust hobbies - banging down white-water canyons in rubber rafts, hang gliding on the thermal currents, roping up the faces of cliffs. But beyond weekend diversion, there remains a vast array of exploration and adventure. It ranges, says Apollo 9 Astronaut Russell ("Rusty") Schweickart, "from the massive NASA kind of exploration to some intermediary type, such as Jacques Cousteau's efforts, where there is no question that the driving...