Word: spans
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Riesman acknowledges throughout his essay that the endeavor is an impressionistic one, inspired and molded by his own emotional and intellectual commitment to Harvard's educational undertaking. His experiences here span almost half a century, and those experiences--both undergraduate and professional--weigh heavily on his analysis of the importance and permanence of the upheavals that overtook Harvard during the second half of the 1960s. Riesman evidently possesses a sincere and abiding affection for the university where he matured and spent a good part of his working life, and the problem he sets for himself in his essay...
...five. Even with regular transfusions ... only 11% live to age 21." This derives from a paragraph in which I was describing the situation at the turn of the century. Today almost all hemophiliacs grow to adulthood and, once there, can expect to live a relatively normal life span...
...came up from New Jersey on Thursday, and read The Crimson on that day and the next. Sadly, things seem to have changed in the brief span of one year. While brothers and sisters are struggling through some serious negotiations at Brown University, The Harvard Crimson is spending its time defending the lackadaisical minority recruitment effort ("We can't find anybody"), and the Administrative Board is laboring over a monkish set of Noise Rules that could snuff out any "disturbances during the day that would hamper study or contemplation...
...more President in their lives of 87 and 85 years, 67 of which they have been married. What Ford does will reach to their hillside as have the actions of the other 15 Presidents in their span. They will neither huzzah nor protest but go on about the enduring business of living, finding fulfillment in family, church and neighbors. They are not recluses or faddists. Their butter and soap come from the store. They worked the land, taught country school, and welcomed the automobile, hybrid corn and television. And what they had at any moment was always enough. The nearest...
Once one accepts this arbitrary and highly implausible premise, the play sails along on a tide of felicitous gags and domestic ups and downs reported at one remove. Doris and George swap spouse stories instead of spouses. Meanwhile, over a time span of a quarter of a century, the changes in attitudes, dress and behavior that occur in Doris and George constitute a kind of nostalgic calendar of the U.S. itself. Except that it is wittier, Same Time, Next Year is a redo of The Fourposter. It is the kind of theatrical fare that fiftyish middle-class marrieds have been...