Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Howard Ross '78 (not his real name) had always gotten easy As when he wasn't doing stuff as president of his class and chairman of his school social service organization. When he came to Harvard, he decided to drop the extra-curriculars and concentrate on his academics, to really soak in the "atmosphere which puts an emphasis on the intellectual...
...more of an academic. But I wasn't in love with the work. It made me wonder why I was here. Not to be facetious, that took up a lot of my time. I was confused. I turned inwards. I read a lot, did a lot of stuff by myself, basically turned off my public image...
...scientists advised the Federal Government to: 1) start a strict energy conservation program; 2) develop nonpolluting ways of mining and burning coal; and 3) work toward using "the energy from the sun, the winds, the tides and the heat in the earth's crust." All this is familiar stuff, but the large number of concerned scientists-about 20% of those whose signatures were solicited-may lend new weight to the recommendations...
...reliance on analogies and poetic images to express his meaning. Chen is surprisingly tough-minded about musical interpretation. He is unmoved by "19th century poetic crap" and condemns those romantics who "use all that perfume and stuff just to cover them up because they don't bathe...
...most compelling slides concern Jordan himself, losing his stuff but finding himself in the seedy, rundown parks of the minors. Surrounding him are other, less hopeful cases: men disputing the evidence of the statistics, making one last effort to reach the big time. "We deliberately kept our conversations elemental," Jordan recalls in A False Spring. "We deliberately thwarted growth because we feared it would lead to the realization, not that our dream was insignificant, but just that it was not significant enough to excuse our wasting all that time." Inevitably Jordan lost not merely games but his "perpetual innocence...