Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps the prevalence of bootlegging lies in the nature of the Dead's music. Its jazzy, ranging, individualistic style can't be captured on a single disc. Some Deadheads claim that no two recordings of one of their songs are exactly the same. As a result, many fans prefer bootlegs to authorized recordings...
...Bogart saying a lot of meaninglessly cool things to Ingrid Bergman--whose love handle are not featured in the film. Anyway, war wins out the end, proving that, given the alternative of bedding down with a gorgeous Swede and playing around with a rickety old plane, men almost always prefer machines to blondes...
Football has been rather too unmellow for the Brownies, who prefer a Saturday afternoon in a damp cave exploring all sorts of new fungi. "Oh, wow, look at the mushrooms...
Some Yalies would prefer not being in the spotlight, though. "I'm disgusted with them," said Adam S. Chodorow, a member of the band's script writing committee. "We get banned at Army because were lewd and obscene. We say we're tasteful and don't deserve the rap. Then, the next day, seven people drop their pants...
...FIRST ISSUE to consider is that of pressure. At the root of the opposition to the granting of an honorary to the President is the implicit notion of Harvard as a pressure group in our society. Some members of our community may prefer to call it "making a statement" or "putting Harvard's influence behind a moral stand" (that is, when they don't fall back on the cop-out of "he's not worthy"). But when all is said and done, breaking the long-standing precedent of offering honorary degrees to Presidents on major Commencement dates--Roosevelt 50 years...