Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That number has become by far the most important factor in Harvard's admissions process...
...admissions process consists of sifting tens of thousands of these hunches-some made by admissions personnel and others by New Mexico high school teachers and emerging with 1400 students. (Only 1150 generally accept their places, and some 50 more are added from a waiting list...
...remaining skeletons are easily eroded by the ocean's waves. Once the coral barriers are breached, the islands that they surround are no longer protected from the pounding of the open sea. Because the reefs are vital to the spawning and feeding of much undersea life, the process can also destroy fertile fishing grounds almost overnight...
...charm nor intelligence, it is novelty." Equally unexpected is Baroche's revelation that the French lover of fabled expertise is a vanishing breed; many men were simply bored with the foreplay in lovemaking. "I have a horror of the preliminaries of love," one of them confided. "The process of taking off one's clothes becomes a handicap with habit." In short, the smooth French lover, typified for millions by Charles Boyer's 1938 role as the romantic Casbah thief in Algiers, is becoming extinct...
This is a hard little book about dying. A man, fairly young and partly regretful, lives his death neither badly nor well, and for a time his dying makes some difference to a few people. His death is not tragedy or comedy but a process: it will happen, then it is happening, and then, with no decent, grassy place marking the flow of time, it is merely something that happened...