Word: placing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...education has prepared me better than most to "make a living." But once I have that living, I haven't the faintest idea what to do with it. Besides, why should financial security loom so large in the first place? What if the pursuit of that security conflicts with the pursuit of some other ideal, like romance? Many of us will derive our deepest fulfillment from our future families. How do we choose between a relationship and a job, between a guaranteed salary and the risks of potentially fickle passion...
...dialects, and I had to spend a lot of time trying to lose my Scottish accent. I also worked for six weeks in a psychiatric hospital. To begin with it was scary because I was working with people who had committed atrocious crimes-it was a high security place--but by the end of it I was fairly sad to leave...
...stage of the Agassiz Theatre is lined with cardboard columns. Strewn across the boards are big, half-painted set pieces--platforms akimbo, colliding, stairs aimed into nothing. I feel like I've walked into the closing scene of a tectonic morality play. Overhead, lights are just swinging into place over the balcony's edge. A crowd of performers is milling in the wings, brocaded and beribboned. In the pit a harpsichordist is bent over his instrument like a hermit at his orisons, wielding the tiny crucifix of a tuning key. A Cupid darts across the unclothed scene, her bow unstrung...
...weeks ago the library sent me a beautiful gift folder. When I saw its embossed Harvard College Library seal and supple paper, my first reaction was to wash my hands, carefully place it back in the envelope and store it in a safe place for 50 years, when my grandkids are ready to apply to Harvard. My next idea was to wonder why the Library sent one of those hefty folders to every single undergraduate student in what was easily a $50,000-plus project. Without even beginning to address alternative uses for that kind of money, I must...
...Serbs. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright announced Wednesday that the U.S. would lift sanctions against Yugoslavia if the country holds free and fair elections - even if they result in a Milosevic victory. That's a retreat from the more extreme U.S. position that had insisted sanctions would remain in place until Milosevic is ousted - through elections or not - and brings Washington more into line with the thinking of European NATO members and the Serbian opposition. "Most important," says TIME Washington correspondent Barry Hillenbrand, "the policy shift makes sense; the U.S. hardly wants to be responsible for a humanitarian tragedy...