Word: happen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Serious shit to be sure, but still it just seemed to happen, and that was the point...
...meantime a presidential campaign proceeded. The march to the Democratic and Republican conventions moved along as day follows night, with just as many surprises. There were occasional moments of thrill, when it seemed for a second that something significant might just happen. Pat Robertson beat George Bush, the Vice President, in Iowa. But then Bush won in New Hampshire and everywhere else...
Everyone thinks the '60s was glorious, non-stop politics. But the '60s took 10 years to happen. Often we felt that we were in the margins. The movement was a constant search, we were looking for some way to act with integrity and effect. It was not all bigtime jamborees...
...started working with radioactive materialsimmediately, which is not supposed to happen,"says the technician. "It happens all the time....Alot of the time I've seen people come into thelabs and not know the [type of] materials they'redealing with," she says...
...consider myself blessed," she says. "There are a lot of people in my circle of friends for whom Harvard has been the best thing to happen for them. It's such a launching...