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...although leaving my old concrete wasteland of a college wasn't exactly the key to everlasting bliss, I'm nonetheless ecstaticabout being at Harvard. I'd have gone spastic if I had to stay at MIT, because it didn't feel right. Harvard does...

Author: By Dante E.A. Ramos, | Title: I Went to MIT My First Year--And Lived! | 7/3/1992 | See Source »

...need a chair who's going to inspire the students," he said. "I think I'm energetic to the point of being spastic...

Author: By D. RICHARD De silva and Joseph M. Mathews, S | Title: Council Chair Candidates Square Off | 10/11/1991 | See Source »

...child, that she needed her cervix sewn shut to prevent premature birth. The diagnosis was faulty, and the operation resulted in an infection that destroyed some of the unborn child's brain cells. Born six weeks prematurely, Johnathan Scott is afflicted with a form of cerebral palsy known as spastic quadriplegia. Although he is mentally alert, Johnathan, now eight years old, will never walk or develop normally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Malpractice: Justice for Johnathan | 7/16/1990 | See Source »

...sound scratchy when you're listening to that Pink Floyd album you last played when you were stoned and accidentally dropped on the floor in trying to flip it over. (If you couldn't have experiences like this, what would be the point in getting stoned and making spastic attempts to function normally...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Longing For L.P.'s | 11/1/1989 | See Source »

This fretful mood has been easy to notice in small talk and just as easy to experience. It is evident in tense radio weather reports and the spastic smiles of television weather forecasters as they explain the now well-known greenhouse effect -- the inexorable warming of the earth under the global canopy that civilization has created with gases like carbon dioxide. The friendly, familiar promises of good ol' summertime have yielded to the hallucinatory imagery of technology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talking About the Weather | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

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