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...neighborhoods were some distance apart. You had to wind through alley after alley, see many windows and many faces pass through so much life--in order to get from one to the other. Now, among these empty, intersecting streets, one stride seems enough; all the proportions have changed for me. You still pass by the burned debris (left by the fire of 1922) and piles of dirt which look like offal from the crude sprouting of reinforced concrete...
...English liquor. The Plough is always jammed mostly with rough-and-ready-looking men, and the trick for Harvard students and professors going there is to be able to pose successfully as just plain Cambridge residents. It's a mark of high distinction in some quarters if you can stride into the Plough on a Saturday night and be greeted by name by the people there. The Plough has a largely inaccurate reputation for being a good spot for a Saturday night knock-over-the-tables fight; if you're looking for that kind of action check out the Gaslight...
Other Faculty members and administrators followed in stride, implying that geographic, economic, academic and racial diversity could not possibly be achieved with respect to women...
...styles that would be heard later from the leading German romantics. There is a point in the first movement, for example, when the piano becomes a discreet accompanist (arpeggios mostly) and the clarinet takes a solo: pure Schumann. The piano's entry in the second movement has a stride and harmonic ingenuity prophetic of Chopin...
Last week the Energy Coordinating Group, whose members include the U.S., Canada, Japan and nine Western European oil-importing nations, announced a major stride toward a unified, help-thy-friend energy policy. Meeting in Brussels under the chairmanship of Belgian Diplomat Vicomte Etienne Davignon, 41, a leading Common Market policymaker, the ECG accepted in principle a U.S.-sponsored proposal for sharing and conserving oil supplies during future energy emergencies...