Word: sit
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Although the sounds of his bass clarinet are certainly moving right now, it’s hard to imagine a more torturous idea than waking up with the birds to sit in an empty studio, staring into the dark common area through the glass while announcing track names to the perhaps four dedicated listeners and five elderly gentleman who have decided to tune in. These estimations could even be high—it is entirely possible that I am speaking to no one right...
...realize it isn’t the bravest thing to hide under the banner of required aloneness, there is still something to be said for required solitude, for time away from Facebook and final clubs, alone in a basement, listening to screeching saxophones and melancholy chords. So here I sit, playing jazz and talking to no one (no one I can see anyway). And while it may not be the exactly what Jonathan Franzen was thinking of, I can safely say that I now know how to be alone...
...Harvard community, the fasters not only reinforce the pressure for divestment on the Corporation but emphasize the seriousness of their moral commitment and invite the Corporation (and the rest of us) to do the same. Hopefully, President Bok and the Fellows of the University will not sit in stubborn silence and watch the opportunity pass by. To quote one group of tenured professors who have thrown their support behind the fasters. “We will forever be ashamed of a Harvard that defines its self-interest so callously that it is incapable of matching the moral thrust of divestiture...
...York Times titled “Enjoy the Reunion. Skip the Check.” Bogert blasted Harvard for what she sees as its contentment to sit on the endowment, which is set to hit $100 billion in a decade. She asked, “Why do all those clever classmates of mine continue to invest their money in an institution with such a lack of imagination about how to deploy its resources...
...Kjartansson surveys the disarray in his headquarters, littered with scattered papers and filing cabinets. "If somebody had been taking their passport picture an hour earlier, you can see what would have happened," he notes, pointing to the tall metal column that has fallen on the precise spot where people sit to be photographed. At the door of another office, a bookshelf has collapsed onto a chair. "If somebody had been sitting at that desk," he says, not finishing his sentence...