Word: raring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ryan G. Schaffer '00 traveled with his mother, Jan, from their home in Cleveland to Philadelphia to see a specialist who might be able to treat his mom's rare form of cancer. Jan Schaffer had first been diagnosed in 1982, and after a brief period of radiation treatment, a doctor declared her cured. She returned to normal life for a while--if you can call being the single mother of three energetic sons normal. But eight years later the cancer returned. When Ryan and his mother spoke with the Philadelphia doctor, he told her she had six months...
...under pressure is a rare commodity these days, especially in that debased form of infotainment known as the game show. Yes, the gallop of thundering nerds can be heard on Jeopardy!, but most shows have daters or honeymooners lewdly embarrassing each other. The mud wrestling is only verbal, but it's still a tiny step from Jerry Springer--and a long way from the stellar font of quiz shows, radio's Information, Please (1938-48), hosted by Clifton Fadiman and featuring the mordant wits Fred Allen and Oscar Levant. Back then folks tuned in to meet people cleverer than they...
...poet Philip Larkin calls this atmosphere "the unreal life/Of exercises, marks, honor, speech days and games,/And the interesting and pretty animals that inspired it all." It's no wonder that a real animal can so unsettle us. The rare, wild beasts of the Yard remind us that there's world outside of Harvard. Beyond the classes and parties and grad-school acceptances, another life awaits. Like the skunk and hawk, we'll have to forage for our food instead of having it handed to us. But this world needn't frighten us so long as we acknowledge its existence...
...Furthermore, despite the fact that there are efforts to re-establish falcon populations in the eastern United States, falcons remain very rare in New England--far more rare than the red-tailed hawk. Finally, I believe that I have seen the specific bird in that picture in the Yard before, and I identified it on that occasion (with the help of some friends) as a red-tailed hawk...
Furthermore, despite the fact that there are efforts to re-establish falcon populations in the eastern United States, falcons remain very rare in New England--far more rare than the red-tailed hawk. Finally, I believe that I have seen the specific bird in that picture in the Yard before, and I identified it on that occasion (with the help of some friends) as a red-tailed hawk...