Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hear at Harvard that there was someone more intelligent than mankind, individually or collectively. That was the Creator of Man," he wrote...
There's been a lot of discussion of community in my three months at Harvard. First-years hear a message that communities are desirable, supportive and a necessary part of the school. For example, the intramural sports program tells us that "the emphasis is upon participation by all and building a camaraderie among the Class of 2002.." On a smaller scale, it's expected in letter and in spirit that we'll make activities with our entryway a focal point of our social lives...
...salaries; instead we are using this school as an opportunity to do something extraordinary with our lives. To be focused on raising children this early in life is to be stunting one's capacity to take advantage of all the skills and opportunities we have at our disposal. To hear that few students are not presently intent on having a family comes as no surprise...
...hazy thicket of the forest. I could not get the panoramic view, but I was able to take in the interior sounds and the overarching silence by which they and I were subsumed. Something momentous was about to happen, or had already happened, 10 million years ago. I could hear the air. Everything became important--the flesh of the leaves, the braided vines, a macaw overhead, the smallest insect. A bug the size of a piece of dust crawled across my hand as I wrote about it crawling across my hand...
...buoyancy but ballast to the proceedings. While Jeff Goldblum is good as a fretful Aaron, the rest of an exemplary vocal cast (Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandra Bullock, Patrick Stewart) can't add much shading or power. Steve Martin is here for muted comic relief, but don't expect to hear him sing King Tut. Any sort of irreverence would be out of place in this by-the-Book rendition. Nonetheless, it is missed...