Word: life-long
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...registration issue of the Crimson which was sent to all incoming Freshmen featured several "my first year at Harvard" stories--personal accounts of past experiences at the school. They reminded me of high class versions of those weight reducing ads in which Betti-Jo Applepie tells about her life-long battle with fifty extra pounds and how she managed to win the fight with the help of the product. There were only two major differences that I could detect between the ads and the Crimson articles: 1) The struggle was not against chocolate cakes and napoleons but against the pitfalls...
...fears came down to earth in group discussion. Most of these life-long Boston area residents had never seen Harvard, and wanted to leave St. Mary's for an evening. Those who were strongly opposed had little to say; I asked for the "yes" votes first to spare them embarrassment, and they frowned at the floor as a large majority of the hands went up. But they earned my respect by showing on the night of the trip...
...Woody Allen's success as a playwright and as an actor is that he understands so well the real nature of neurotics. Being a neurotic is a life-long affair with its own set of patterns and institutions--unhappy love relationships, psychoanalysis, various combinations of sedatives and stimulants, an acute sensitivity to the sources of one's own pain, and a vivid fantasy life. In between, sometimes in the very midst of periods of depression, the neurotic is capable of remarkable insight into his behavior and its motivation, and yet feels himself entirely incapable of change...
...whose art pulses with the strain of creating in a culture that relentlessly associates creativity with maleness. "The soul selects her own society, then shuts the door," begins one of Emily Dickinson's best-known poems. Dickinson's poetry reflects her unique physical, as well as spiritual, confinement; a life-long recluse, she shut herself up in her father's house and composed taut verses proclaiming the isolation of the human soul...
This isn't the first great team that K-House has put together, Chamberlain says. He tells the story of the day Giles E. Thredgold, life-long Ivy League referee, broke in his pinstrips reffing intramurals at Harvard...