Word: presention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the election controversy behind them, newboard members pledged to present a united front...
...here's a threefold message for all on-campus Harvard undergraduates. Future Quadlings: you should be grinning from ear to ear. Present Quadlings: it's time to revamp our image--be proud, and proclaim it loudly! River rats: don't pity us. Just visit us. You truly don't know what you're missing...
...moment approach is a handy tool that has 1,001 uses around the house. Thus: a husband comes home at five in the morning with the scent of another woman lingering about his person. "Where were you?" the wife demands. "Darling," the husband replies, "I am vividly in the present tense. I dare you to join me there!" (Good luck in trying that...
...doesn't work very well in a serious life. The thing about the present is precisely its confused instability, its blurriness, its sleight-of-hand. Now you see it, now you don't. It is a fog of particles in motion, a montage of denial and fantasy and sidelong perception. And therefore a most congenial medium for the current President...
Animals--lions and zebras and beautiful snakes--live vividly in the present tense, in a bright unconsciousness of time. That is their innocence and their limitation. Humans carry with them their experiences, their pasts; men and women work with a knowledge of consequences and, doing so, impose order on the chaotic present and project consequences into the future...