Word: linoleum
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...politics simply do not mix. There could be no grandiose pronouncements, no claims that Pi Day is as American as mom, the flag and apple pi; the ratio, after all, belongs to the world. Legislators write home about how they were tough on crime, or saved the federal linoleum subsidy; any Congressman who told his constituency about his sponsorship of Pi Day would be laughed out of office. (Unless his constituency were entirely composed of mathematicians, in which case he would be anointed king...
...stories appeared so simple and effortless that many aspiring writers decided to turn them out themselves. These admirers might get the props right--say, a mobile home with linoleum on the floor and an opened bottle of gin on the kitchen table--but not the magic that Carver could work with such material, not the sense of enormous import lurking in the pauses of desultory conversations...
...learned to play guitar really well. When I got back to school, rather than worrying about my classes, I spent more time hanging out with my friends. Especially since there is no scene at Harvard. There's nothing to do besides sitting in a room with a linoleum floor and a keg and stumbling around with a bunch of guys...
...Students at other colleges, most of whom live in minuscule two-person boxers with cinder block walls and linoleum floors, tend to get jealous when they see pictures of elegant Harvard quarters. And with good reason. Harvard's dorms have some drawbacks, of course; students need to develop the stamina to climb stairs and a high tolerance for old architecture. But a housing system that involves working fireplaces, wooden floors, spacious rooms and beautiful landscaping isn't such a bad start to a Harvard career...
...seasonal as the smell of fresh-cut grass, the sound of the cleats pattering on Dillon's linoleum floor...