Word: nervousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...find their way back. This stuff is just not true, nor are the tales of skeletal remains found in carrels or those of people who got locked in the stacks for weeks. Frankly, unless you have absolutely no directional sense at all you cannot get lost in the stacks; nervous, may be, but not lost...
...seven men who comprise the Harvard Corporation finished drawing up their position in the old President's House and walked outside, they could not help but feel a little nervous, for less than 100 feet away more than 1000 students were holding an anti-apartheid rally. In the hope of taking the steam out of the protests, the Corporation decided to delay releasing its decision for two days. Despite the delay, the release of the decision rejecting student demands for divestiture set the stage for the largest student demonstration at Harvard in five years as more than 3000 students participated...
Like almost everything else at Harvard. Freshman Week depends at lot on how you approach it. You and about 1600 equally nervous, eager, and thoroughly confused people will be subjected to a week ofn onstop sensory glut. You will see, hear, and do a lot of new things with new people, and even if you never stop moving aroung there'll be thngs that you miss, or will want to miss. There are, of course, several ways to cope with Freshman Week, and the patern you choose will depend on your attitude coming in and how quickly you can adjust...
...bubble gum from a $2, 2-lb. package of mix-about half the price of the manufactured product. Says POW! Entrepreneur Fred Starkey: "If scotch is your favorite drink, flavor it with scotch. If you like fruit cocktail, use that, or use Kool-Aid." He adds with a nervous chuckle: "I've had feedback that the kids are putting grass in it." Most gum kits are sold by mail from his headquarters in Arlington, Texas...
Lightning struck two young men visiting Sequoia National Park in 1975, killing one and damaging the other's nervous system. The tragedy would seem to be an ugly triumph of miscreant weather and bad luck, yet a pending lawsuit against the National Park Service demands "no less than a million" for the disabled survivor and $1,606,645 for his late companion's family. The plaintiffs' argument: the park management negligently failed to warn the victims against standing where lightning might strike. The most amazing thing about the plaintiffs' position is that...