Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...going to beat Princeton with only five hits," Wentzell said. Harvard's lone hit in the first game came from Prior, while the Tigers--led by Kristy Schmidt's perfect 3-for-3--cracked 10 hits...
Even on that first scary morning, though, there were a few seconds on the downstream run when six of the eight were rowing in nearly perfect sync, no boats were on our tail, and no bridges were in sight for at least a few minutes. For those few seconds, I felt an unusual rush of completeness and connection with the rowers. I was their eyes, and I was doing the job correctly. I made it into the dock in triumph, experiencing the type of thrill that for me was usually came after a good exam or editing a story well...
...show people. True show people do not stop performing when they leave the set or the theater; their entire lives are gigantic theatrical performances. This inability to separate art from reality has pervaded the Oscars. The Academy members cannot help but give you the ending that would make perfect poetic justice on the screen...
...sarcastically describes the good neighbors he has in the murderous gangsters upstairs. He compares his suburb, Krumville, to New York City, which he had moved to because he "always wanted to live on a small island somewhere between the US and Europe." He describes his expectation of "the perfect high" on fantastic Indian marijuana and then tells us it made him sick, anxious and self-destructive...
Although yesterday's vote signalled the formaldemise of the CRR, students, as always, still saythere is more to be done to perfect Harvard'sdisciplinary reform system...