Word: nirvana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...living in a house finally. However, for many other transfers, their waiting is not yet over. For sophomore transfers, each year off-campus is a third of their time at Harvard. For junior transfers, it can be half of their time. Of course, living on-campus is not the nirvana of Harvard existence, but arbitrarily denying transfer students a chance to live on-campus when space is available is not justifiable. I hope that space will not continue to be jealously hoarded by Housing officers while transfers suffer. Timothy...
...children on a beef and hay farm in the Atlanta suburbs. "The house is real sequestered away from people," says Hunter in a lilting twang punctuated by the occasional dadgummit. "The farm isn't groomed -- there's a kind of wildness to the place. It's beautiful, a little Nirvana down there." Holly was the willful tomboy. "My father did not approve of my learning to drive a tractor," she says, "which is probably why I'm so stubborn. He made the rules, and I broke them. But, like everyone who grows up on a farm, I got a working...
...other Ginsburg--or is it Ginsberg?--Ginsbirg?--homonymous, at any rate, and a poet, the queer, the bundle of tie-died rags crumpled still sleeping at his brother's feet, sleeping off the daybreak or maybe paralyzed from the South African toadskin the freaked-out hitchhiker passed off as Nirvana several thousand moments ago in California, back there in a distant space before the angry pumped up reds-speed-and-Jack-Daniels buzz twisted, writhed and plummeted into the mellow blue-black of sweet Colombian dope and then, groggily, awoke into a bright new day of desert sunshine, cocaine...
...tell you that both theories are false, as is every other afterlife ever conceived by the mind of man. Death does not involve angels, or houris, or ace bandages (well, perhaps ace bandages--more on this later). Nor does it have anything to do with trumpets, balm of Gilead, Nirvana, or Kama Sutra. Death is lying on the unyielding floor of the Dunster House dining hall with an itchy nose, worrying about being stepped...
...suffering that players consider themselves initiates in what approaches a religion. According to tradition, it takes "seven years' listening, seven years' practicing and seven years' playing to make a piper," but the reward is mastery of a difficult physical skill, plus the experience of creating one's own musical nirvana. The sound is something like an oboe, something like a bassoon, and, when all the various parts are used, like several of each playing at once...