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...Actually, I'm kind of busy right now." This usually comes right after you propose to the Pre-greedicus to do something else (which may actually entail nonproductive movement or conversation). This goodbye is especially useful to Pre-Greedicus because the "right now" qualification personalizes their departure with the slight suggestion that their busy state is only temporary...

Author: By Gil B. Lahav, | Title: A Taxonomy of Harvard | 4/25/1994 | See Source »

...Adams was like a Renaissance Florentineacademy," former resident James E. Maraniss '66says. "It was a place where you were anintellectual and an aesthete. However, there wasalso a slight aura of decadence there...

Author: By Manlio A. Goetzl, | Title: At Harvard, Weld Was Scholar, Free Spirit | 4/15/1994 | See Source »

Clara, Rosa's younger sister, records family events in her journal, and amuses herself with her psychic powers. She moves objects around the room with her eyes, producing only a slight reprimand from her mother (Vanessa Redgrave), who is apparently accustomed to her daughter's unusual gifts. Later, While telling fortunes to guests at a party in honor of the election of her father (Armin Mueller-Stahl) to the senate. Clara suddenly foresees her sister Rosa's untimely death. She screams at the shock of her premonition, which proves to be true (as are all of Clara's predictions). Hours...

Author: By Yael Schenker, | Title: `Spirits' Lacks Essential Spiritual Passion | 4/7/1994 | See Source »

...slight different is that theundergraduates I worked with were completelycommitted to what they were doing musically," headded, "and it was hard to give that...

Author: By Tara H. Arden smith, | Title: Medieval Music Expert Accepts Tenure Offer | 4/6/1994 | See Source »

...admitted class has about the same geographical diversity as last year's, with slight increase in the number ofapplicants from the Northeast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women Admitted Set Record | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

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