Word: reads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students want this? No. And yet members of the council suffer under the mass delusion that students like having an impotent council to make jokes about. I've never heard anyone argue so adamantly that the council must retain a "purely social" (read: impotent) role than a council member...
...least until after his home state's primary on March 15. Behind the flip- flop was some arm twisting by Illinois supporters. State Democratic Chairman Vince Demuzio collared Simon at Chicago's Midway Airport last week. "I told him I almost cut off my nose shaving when I read what he had said," says Demuzio. Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan groused about being left "high and dry" and hinted that Simon's Senate re-election chances might be hurt if he abandoned the race early...
...think you really have to be passionate about it, you have to love it," Kelly says about her book business. "I love to read, I love books. When our TV broke in 1956, my father didn't have it repaired for three years. He worked in a paper recycling mill so he brought old books home. That was one way we kept a lot of them around...
...When you read a book, what matters in the largest sense is not what you read. The information becomes outdated, the writer converted, the reader cold and dead. What matters is holding a book, seeing them line up one against the other, realizing that they are heavy, like concrete, like stone. What matters is realizing that books are not only the monuments of the past, but that they are monuments of us, that they will take our living, breathing place, and that they will assume our space when we have gone...
After two hours, there is a calm. People read, listen to walkmen, fall asleep. The excitement is submerged...