Word: walks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carpenter Center for the general public. Admission is free. He sleeps behind a glass panel, under satin sheets that a sign says are designed to "conceal and reveal" his sleeping form. Viewers are asked to remove their shoes before they enter--the floor is spongy and feels dreamy to walk on. The sleeping subject behind the glass has his brain and body activity constantly monitored, and readings are displayed on a large screen next to him. He is the highlight of the exhibit--a real sleeper...
...Quad is a nice place to spend freshman year, Duker thinks, but he wanted the chance to experience life in a River House. "It's a pain in the ass to walk to sports from here," he laments, referring to the paucity of athletic facilities near Radcliffe. But Duker and Pass have accepted their fate. Duker says they had anticipated leaving the Quad but, "now, as we face living here for the rest of our collegiate careers, we're getting more involved in the House. Harry talked to Ann Spence [assistant dean of the College] to get basketball courts built...
...first, Dave Johnson (who, incidentally, is the same Dave Johnson who punted for Cornell this fall and returned a muddy snap 78 yards to ruin Harvard's football season) hit a line drive off Bingham's globe into right field for a double. An intentional walk to Ken Venema loaded the sacks, and a wild pitch by starter Steve Baloff unloaded them and made...
...turns toward Saxton, his home, he finds it empty of meaning, as insensible as the coal to which his father has mortgaged his existence. "It's no good hanging on," Colin finally tells the older woman he deserts, with sudden insight. The alternative, beautifully inevitable in Saville, is to walk fearlessly ahead into a vacant future, armed only with the prayer that life, freed from its bondage to the past, is indeed limitless...
...They have taken my husband out of my home for no reason. Others are murderers, and they walk the streets...