Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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OVER Thanksgiving break I got a lot older. Suddenly events and people conspired to make me feel less like a boy and more like a beginner grown-up. Part of it was fun, like moving from the kiddy table to the Big People's table during Thanksgiving dinner. But most of it was unsettling, like the subtle change in my uncle's standard question from "So, what are you going to be when you grow up?" to the more threatening, "So what are you going to do?" I experienced what an understanding senior in my hall calls "pre-life crisis...
...have a feeling it is more or less the same part of my brain which does both [math and music]," reflects Elkies, "they speak to the same place, the same aesthetic...
...must have copied stuff out verbatim," said Adelstein. "He was probably less careful than he should have been...
...thought you shared our deep concern that figures of less than 2 percent Black faculty and professional staff themselves place in question the commitment of all of us at Harvard, black as well as white," Bell wrote in the letter, which was dated November...
...makes any discrimination the clubs may practice very much the lesser of two evils. Moreover, the more specific the case against the Fly becomes (hinging on such questions as non-member use of the building during vacations and the occasional use of their parking lot by Lowell students), the less likely is any ruling to affect any other club. Morally and legally, one cannot tar all clubs with the same brush...