Word: kept
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worst fate in the world, but I had always loved to drive, and my few attempts to do so in rehab--driving a Buick with my fearless instructor, Giri Sipajlo, down New York City's F.D.R. Drive--proved unsatisfactory. I kept bumping other cars. Not very hard and not very seriously, but often enough. I gave...
...response from listeners was electric: Within hours of the shutdown, staffers and supporters set up camp outside KPFA's barricaded offices. For three weeks, protesters kept a 24-hour vigil outside the studios, picketing during the day and sleeping in tents in the middle of the street at night. Unlike more narrowly targeted actions, the KPFA demonstrations attracted a diverse lot-lifelong activists and aging hippies mingled with working professionals, neighbors and students, black and Latino as well as white. For decades, KPFA had supported everyone's movement, so when KPFA was in trouble, everyone came...
...hate the things I find out during summer. Curricula are suspended, schedules are freeze storaged and it is time to live without consideration or consequence. Necessarily then, those inconvenient anti-epiphanies of a life done wrong, usually kept at bay by the tropes and traps of the ordered day, take the liberty during this nebulous period to enlarge their presence in my life. Opportunistic bastards...
...response from listeners was electric: Within hours of the shutdown, staffers and supporters set up camp outside KPFA's barricaded offices. For three weeks, protesters kept a 24-hour vigil outside the studios, picketing during the day and sleeping in tents in the middle of the street at night. Unlike more narrowly targeted actions, the KPFA demonstrations attracted a diverse lot-lifelong activists and aging hippies mingled with working professionals, neighbors and students, black and Latino as well as white. For decades, KPFA had supported everyone's movement, so when KPFA was in trouble, everyone came...
...perhaps most tragic, all but the lucky few missed the chance of a lifetime. If I didn't have to be in London on Wednesday for work, nothing would have kept me from Cornwall, not even the warnings. To experience a natural phenomenon with a crowd of other humans, to realize how small we are and to have our world changed by the shadow of a heavenly body, would have made it worthwhile...