Word: lightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SPRING VACATION danced to an overdue end, I came back to Cambridge, and straightway the town revealed itself in a new light. The barefoot townies scrounging and pimping out along. Mass Ave became Harvard students or, failing that, members of the greater Harvard community, rapping. The square was rife with midnight conferences, indoor and outdoors, inconsequential and self-consciously vital. Top-secret information could be had for a song, if that. Friends greeted each other with a knowing smile, as if to say everybody had exactly the same weighty thing on his mind and why not admit...
...words, "Make sure he is cruder, more reactionary, and basically less pleasant than even you are. Then give him a free hand." It is also important that the assistant be totally inept as a lecturer (ideally he should drool as well as lisp), and that he cast a favorable light on your physical appearance. [In the event that your academic credentials are likewise open to question, be careful to pick an assistant with ones yet more questionable, say a quickie doctorate from the University of Guatemala...
They were serious, for as national agitation rose among the working class for repeal of the amendment before the first dry day, July 1, 1919, the CRIMSON made only the slight concession that light wines and beers should be removed from...
...deck of the Princeton, Stafford, Cernan and Young looked remarkably fresh as they emerged from the recovery helicopter. Clean-shaven, clad in neat, light blue flight overalls (they had changed aboard the helicopter), the astronauts were greeted by cheers from the Princeton's white-suited sailors and the shrill welcoming notes of boatswain's pipes. Then Stafford summarized the feelings of the crew with a sentence that a few years ago would have been appropriate only in science fiction: "It's really great to be back from the moon...
...long tolerated blood-feud killings and also executions, which occurred when a village informally but solemnly decided that a particular individual was a threat to the public good. When Morrow is occasionally faced with such crimes, he makes no attempt to excuse the acts, but his sentences are usually light...