Word: paper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book is a search. None of the three take place in the present. The expedition was planned and executed. It didn't just emerge; it wasn't just there. Nor is meditation anything more than an active pursuit of self-knowledge, while writing is looking backwards. Putting pen to paper involves memory, and memory is linked to thought. By recalling his thoughts Matthiessen reveals not just what he was thinking but that he was thinking which means, in turn, he wasn't simply being...
Student Assembly referenda can produce unexpected results: last semester's poll brought Harvard students free toilet paper, and last week's vote on political parties spurred the Assembly's chairman to resign her membership in the Coalition for a Democratic University...
...library science, Bryant has transformed this philosophy into actions. He has sat on myriads of library, book and academic commissions. For ten years, for example, Bryant chaired the National Committee on the Preservation of Books. "Practically any book printed since the mid-19th century is on paper which is deteriorating at some rate," he sighs. "The libraries of this country face the enormous problem of preserving man's intellectual memory." Bryant is not used to dealing with problems on a small scale. He designed, engineered and oversaw the massive switch of the library's catalogues to the more widely accepted...
...goes on to discuss "welded-steel four-thousand pound artichokes" and sings a chorus about "poppin" Darvon and mothballs" and "sleepin' on paper towels and drinkin...
...everything works out, we will have a more efficient world economy, but unless countries take it seriously, it's just a piece of paper," Phillip H. Trezise, senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute, said yesterday...