Word: nap
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...business world, medical world or whatever world you choose to live in (barring perhaps the world of unemployment, but even that has some duties that require attention) has so many obligations and duties that your time at Harvard may seem to have been nothing more than a brief nap. And brief it is--four years is hardly a blink in the timeline of our lives. Yet these years are supposed to be the best of our lives. Why not be happy...
...telephone. But the trainshouters are doing me in. I refer to the guys on my commuter train who bellow their intimate business strategies into their cell phones, oblivious to people like me: decent, hardworking folk who may have sleepless infants at home and who look forward to a little nap time. Last week I came up with a way to protect my constitutional Right to Snooze. But first I needed a wireless phone...
...canvas onto the wall and floor and then out the door, continuing some 320 ft. along the sidewalk. In 1911 his atonal lesbian operetta, Gal Crazy, caused a riot in Seville, where audience members mistakenly believed they were about to see a bullfight. His kinetic 1928 novel, Run, Fight, Nap, written using only verbs, anticipated the action films...
Looking at this scenery while flipping through the Ec-10 sourcebook may inspire you to join House crew--or to take a nap. Dotted with blankets, chairs and picnic baskets, on sunny days the river bank might aptly be named Harvard Beach. But bring a friend; the peaceful sanctuary of the River is easily disturbed by the stray shady character strolling along Memorial Drive...
This semester more than ever, I feel the burn. It comes in several forms: 1. That unpleasant haze in which I awake when the alarm goes off after what most people consider a short nap, not a night's rest. 2. That queasy after-lunch feeling that numbs even the most stimulating lectures. 3. That early evening slowdown, where everything works at about half speed until...