Word: roam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...labyrinthine structure and aisles lit by naked light-bulbs. Last year, I had a professor encourage us as she handed out supplementary reading lists to spend some time every once in a while browsing in Widener. Not looking frantically for a book, just letting your eyes roam over the shelves. You'll find things you never expected...
...Harvard, ghosts roam freely, along the paths of Tercentenary Theatre and through the buildings of the Yard. But nowhere are they more present than on the shelves of the Harvard library system, where the words of the ages await your accidental perusal...
...There is another dimension. It is a place where people change in qualitative ways, where drug dealers roam, seeking to entice the innocent, the naive who arent hip to the games people play. It is a place where the lack of opportunity stares so baldly at passing wanderers that they run away, rushing off to buy illusions, to believe that things aren't really as bad as they seem. It's a place where there has been so little, for so long, that you cannot walk through it without some trace of its shabby residue getting caught on your clothes...
...Internet and its successor technologies will have the essential features of a massive library system, where people can roam through the electronic equivalent of book stacks with assistance from the electronic equivalent of research librarians," Rudenstine said...
...small hard-backed chair tilted dangerously on its two back legs and props his feet on the armchair in front of him. Putting aside a crystal tray holding the half-eaten fruit salad he has ordered for lunch, he sips a Diet Coke and fidgets slightly while his eyes roam from the ceiling to the reporters to the elegant furniture in his spacious Mass. Hall office...