Word: swingingly
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...DAYS swing onward, galumph, galumph, students leap from their carrels out into the snowless Yard ("I am not a prodigious leaper, I am a bird"). Lights burn late in House rooms ("Look at it this way, Silas, Louis Quinze is to the Pompadour as you are to..."). Some seek recourse to the warm reassurance of love not dependent on academic achievement ("Sally, if I were stupid would you still love me the way I love you?"). Others seek recourse to the warm reassurance of physical exhilaration independent of academic achievement ("I'm not going to get out of shape this...
...race for Cambridge's mayoralty enters its 785th ballot, with the vote split evenly between Lenny Russell and David Wylie. Swing vote Al Vellucci hints he may back George Wald for the post, even though Wald is not a city councilor. "At least he's not a frintcake like the rest of those guys at Harvard," says the East Cambridge councilor...
...black, and the city pops on in a fluorescent amber. It has a noise, this city, like a train or a wail. Tonight the carnival's noise prevails. The place is packed, the faces glowing orange and red in the wild spinning lights. At the giant revolving swing, a man solemnly takes tickets and the children mount the seats in pairs. Slowly the machine turns; slowly the nickelodeon starts up; and the chains that hold the swings grow taut until they parallel the ground. Suddenly the children are on their sides in the air, whirling above Belfast, impelled from...
Other children are playing soccer in uniforms on a huge dirt field. Some enjoy the playground. A naked baby stands before a swing, perplexed as to how to work it. A few busy themselves in the arts hut, painting or carving elaborate wooden musical instruments like the take and the kail. This is where Nep Phem likes to spend his time. When asked why art is important to him, he answers: "So that I may give something to someone, and allow someone to love me in return...
...straight ahead, as if posing for a formal family photograph, and sipping water from an orange plastic bucket passed from hand to hand. Three women group under a tent made of shirts to keep the sun off. They pay no attention to the gawkers in fresh-painted yachts who swing close by for a look. A woman nurses a baby so small it can be mistaken for her own forearm...