Word: pencils
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Near midnight, the last guests leave, and Bob Praeger, a friend visiting from California, turns to White. "Ed, you were fabulous! Those stories you told, my God! I just can't believe there wasn't someone at the table with pencil and paper taking it all down." Bob is in Providence tracking down a letter for a book he is writing on General George Custer. One story leads to another; one letter leads to 300 others. It seems that Bob has all these letters, which he wants to sell, from a "male writer who," he explains, "has signed every...
Some may question the necessity of the Undergraduate Council or any other group planning our fun. Don't kid yourselves. We need organization to have fun. We need to be able to whip out our appointment books and pencil in "FUN--9:51 p.m. to 12:37 a.m." We need to be able to calculate the optimal factor allocation of work and play in order to achieve maximum efficiency...
Considering our need for organization, wouldn't it be easier just to pencil in a whole weekend for a Spring Fling...
...helpful as they are, however, computers are not creative -- at least not yet. Lertola still does all preliminary doodles with a pencil. What the computer does, he says, is "get artwork ready for printing a lot quicker than two years ago." On paper or on the computer, Lertola has been designing graphics for most sections of TIME since 1983, but his special fascination is with things scientific. He has been called upon to diagram such arcana as Halley's comet and the human immune system...
ATTENTION parents. Open up your itineraries for Junior Parents' Weekend and pencil in one extra event. Today at 10:45 a.m., the Minority Student Alliance (MSA) will sponsor a lecture and panel discussion on recruitment of minority and women faculty at Harvard...