Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...morning. Friday night. The four of you have been to a movie, then to a party, but now you're bored. You've wandered through the Square, but every place is closed except Tommy's and The Tasty; and you're sick of those. Harvard is soooo small...
...business has severely corroded cargo-hauling rates and the values of ships. It costs only about $7 today to move a ton of grain from New Orleans to Amsterdam, in contrast to $17 in 1981. Says Fernand Suykens, director general of the port of Antwerp: "World shipping is very sick, and nobody knows when it's going to get any better...
...thick paint as "one of the tools and devices associated with expressionism"--but no more than that. He objects to being tagged as a neoexpressionist. "Whatever else it is about," he insists, "my work is not about the self. I want to get at something outside myself; one gets sick of looking at indulgent expressionist pictures that suck all the air out of the room." He prefers to think of his paintings as "diagrams that describe the way the world works," but one has to take this with a grain of salt. Actually, they come as much from minimal abstraction...
...authorities hate any kind of solidarity among independent-minded people," he says. "In prison this becomes even clearer than it is in ordinary life. Prisoners are forbidden to write collective letters of protest. You are punished if you write to the authorities on behalf of another prisoner --say a sick man who is not getting any medical attention. The authorities say, 'Look, your letters don't help.' And they are right logically. But there exists another, inner logic: the prisoner who writes such a letter may not save his neighbor in the next cell, but he saves his soul...
...been the exception throughout the season. At the GBCs, he took second in the mile run, and helped the two-mile relay to first place. At Dartmouth, he finished second in the 1000 meters to the Big Green's John McCright (last year's Heps winner). But he was sick with a common cold this weekend and had to drop out of the 3000, his only race...