Word: staying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Original Innocence, seeing it exemplified in youth. William Wordsworth hailed a child of six: "Mighty Prophet! Seer blest!" That sentiment was obliquely echoed last summer at the Amherst College commencement; the class valedictorian declared: "Our parents and our teachers believe in adulthood and maturity: our wish is to stay immature as little children." It was meant metaphorically; yet it expressed a profound disillusion with the values of the "older generation"-or perhaps the lack of them. Given little to believe in or rebel against by their liberal parents, the young filled the void with their own lifestyles. The decade...
...USED TO BE that travelling home was a romantic act, a symbolic journey from the confines of college to an all-too-familiar house (memories of confinement). The two places were similar: they were both places you had to go to and stay awhile. Between them there was the voyage, a time when the people you met weren't the same people you've seen for the rest of your life. You'll probably never meet them anywhere but on the road. I remember a veteran stringing his war stories of twenty-five years between Washington and New York...
...plane circled in slow and easy over the Delaware and a few dozen destroyers in mothballs, past an old army base, its barracks down to black skeletons. The wheels touched down and a stewardess told us to stay in our seats...
Brown's ?e?lley relay team is reasonably good, and Cy Miller is a talented competitor in the butterfly, Steve Thomas and Pete Czekanski can also be counted on for a few points every meet, but they will have to scramble to stay with even Harvard's backup...
...They aggravate us. These kids aren't normal. They jump up on counters and scream for service. They spend the minimum and then stay around until 4 or 5 o'clock." said the afternoon cashier. "In approximately a year, I have lost 24 waitresses because of these kids," she added...