Word: isn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Because once upon a time spring was fun. After graduation I figure it will be fun once again. But in college, April--face it, May isn't spring, it's examination season--has to serve as both spring and summer for students, who disperse after finals to spend unreal summers with unreal companions...
...adjectives used to describe the Houses promote stereotypes and are insufficient to convey the variety of experiences people have in their house. Winthrop residents would probably have preferred "crowded" to any other description of their three-year home by the Charles. But it wasn't on the list. Also, isn't an athlete likely to describe his House as "athletic," or an artist as "artistic," no matter what other people think? Finally, who knows whether a certain House is "civilized" or "distinctive" or "stimulating"? I don't, and so I didn't check those descriptions...
...different view of Gorbachev's reforms. Where the students were optimistic, many others saw a dismal future. One woman whose husband spent 15 years in a Siberian labor camp described the Soviet premier as "a man in search of power." And a long-time refusnik said, "Russia just isn't made for democracy. History proves it." When asked what she thought about the current situation, one woman abruptly answered, "I'm scared, scared of what will come after all this is over...
...competition jury, for instance, he included floor-by-floor maps of the buildings' interior ambience -- a singular synthesis of engineering and intuition. On a low-rise roof at Pomona, he wants to plant grass and graze sheep. "They think I'm kidding," says Predock. He is smiling, but he isn't kidding...
...campaign last November. He found the troops in disarray: Jackson's Chicago headquarters lacked not only copying machines but wastebaskets. Thus far, Austin has helped make the trains run and lifted staff morale. He is tough talking and irreverent; his greatest strength, observes another Jackson lieutenant, "is that he isn't afraid to make a decision...