Word: m
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never worried about my chairmanship," Flood said. "You don't fire someone for being right, and I'm certainly not going to resign because I'm right...
Speaking of which, whenever I met a native Nebraskan and asked how he or she was, I always received a (gasp) real answer. Not the typical automatic Harvard Square answer, "Okay, how you doing?" I'm not saying the Bostonian way bothers me; it's just that I was so conditioned to the response, the sincerity shocked...
...have a new perspective on the NIMBY phenomenon. I live in Quincy House, and my bedroom looks directly not the Dewolfe Street construction site, where Harvard Real Estate is building two five-story structures eventually to house University affiliates. Sure, Harvard could use the housing space; but frankly, I'm sick of the noise, and I wish it weren't in my back yard...
...exactly pleasant. But with a lot of concentration, I was able to think of it as musical. After a couple of weeks, I had gotten to the point where, instead of dreaming about screeching hawks, I was dreaming about ice cream trucks. Given a few more weeks, I'm sure I would have dreamt about choirs, or even singing angels...
...dreams have become violent. In them, people are always beating me over the head. I'm afraid that next week I'll start beating them back...