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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Have I reached eighty-five in good shape? In reasonably good shape, yes. My sight and my hearing are not so good as they used to be. What are my complaints, if I can call them that? I think the greatest handicap for me of being eighty-five is that I have lost my surefootedness. (I am surprised that the Shorter Oxford Dictionary does not have this word, but I was reassured to find it in Webster.) I do not now feel happy walking among the coarse hummocks of a grassy hill. I do not like walking in the dark...
...There is whiskey everywhere and not a drop to drink, only lemonade," Vellucci complained at the dinner, which was held within sight of the distillery's liquor-bottling apparatus...
...increasingly frequent criticism of campus divestment advocates, especially here at Harvard, is that they have sold out and have become obsessed with the issues of "governance" and "process." Critics contend that they have become so caught up with the means that they have lost sight of the end: divestment...
Harvard protesters have lost sight of the prize--divestment--and instead have been mesmerized by the University's picayune bureaucratic processes. The Committee on University Practices--a little activist group which proudly calls itself "Coup" much the same way Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt labelled himself "important"--displays this misguidedness in all its splendor. Last year Coup demanded that Harvard reduce the 50-year rule on its secret records. This year Coup held a contest to name Harvard's most "inaccessible administrator." If the University doesn't come around these radical activists may roll up their sleeves, put up their dukes...
...attacks." Both officials had expected McKay to wind up his investigations quickly, but as the probe broadened instead, they decided that someone had to do something. Said a White House source: "They had endured the situation as long as they could, but there appeared to be no end in sight...