Word: overhearing
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It’s a sunny Thursday afternoon in Cambridge, and the Harvard JV baseball team is battling UMass. I’m sitting in the dugout, hoping I’ll be called upon to pitch, when I overhear a reference to Pete Incaviglia, a semi-obscure Major League outfielder from the eighties and nineties...
...writing. I go through different periods when I'll write a bunch of things, then go through long spells where I don't really write anything. I just jot down little phrases and things I overhear, people talking to me, stuff like that. Usually when I have some kind of deadline pressure, I'll get prolific. When I do work, I work for long periods of time, then I lay back for a minute. I'll work for, like, 24 or 30 hours, 14 hours at a time, then readjust after that. Then I do it again four or five...
...next table, four freshmen from Pennypacker, who slogged through the snow for their meal, couldn’t help but overhear the seniors’ discussion and were quick to defend themselves...
...regarding Princeton’s athletic superiority, he appears to have a few misconceptions about the University. Sitting a few seats away from him in Princeton Stadium’s beautiful press box last Saturday, I had the fortune (or, rather, misfortune) to overhear his boisterous running commentary on the game. Suffice it to say that I found it rather ironic that he calls Princeton “haughty” and “oozing with pretension.” Perhaps if McGinn wiped the clam chowder out of his eyes, he might...
...with the idea for such sessions while studying political philosophy at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. Several days a week after class, he and other students would meet with a favorite professor at a local watering hole. Often other people at the bar would overhear their heated discussions and join in. "I thought, 'Wouldn't it be wonderful just to have these great conversations all the time?'" he says...