Word: ices
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some condolences. Empathize civilian-style along with Jimmy Stewart in 1966's Flight of the Phoenix. It's Lifeboat in the desert, or maybe a grim, post-war Gilligan's Island, with Stewart as an old-dog Skipper forced to yield to the "push-button world" and the ice-cold young German (the Professor?) who embodies it. You'll wince, maybe proudly, when Stewart tells us that "the little men with the slide rules and the computers are going to inherit the Earth." And then consider that this week, the whole thing could have been filmed off the coast...
...latter are for students who need to use UNIX systems for their course. They work should login to ice.fas.harvard.edu ("ice" stands for instructional computing environment) and are randomly sent to ice...
Beware, though--these machines are no longer the fastest offered for course work. Unless you need the large screen, you are better off programming and compiling one ice...
...memoir, Burning the Days is at once uncannily precise and irritatingly vague. Here, in a small paradigm of exactitude, is the way he capsulizes a friend, Robert Phelps: "He was fond of books; steak tartare; gin from a green bottle poured over brilliant cubes each afternoon at five, the ice bursting into applause; cats; beautiful sentences; Stravinsky; and France." Salter's episodic memoir is studded with such fond remembrances of things, and persons, past: an insouciantly comfortable whore at a chic brothel in Morocco; that aged lion of a writer Irwin Shaw, drawn irresistibly to womanly beauty. "The great engines...
...when the heat got too much to handle even with your ice cream and fountain breezes (as it often did), your oasis was not a floating raft with a lemonade stuck in the cup holder but rather an air-conditioned building. Any air-conditioned building. And, like the cliche "any port in a storm," you found buildings this summer you hadn't had the opportunity to explore during the year. You checked out the Greek Vase Scholarship exhibit in Houghton Library, discovered the poetry room in Lamont and, of course, were able to be up-to-date on the latest...