Word: walks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...communicate all our audible bedroom life. My relations with Harvard bureaucracy (especially the Registrar's Office and UHS) are inextricably linked to the hostile grey sterility of Holyoke Center. And some elements of architecture have a physical and emotional impact not so easily pinned down, buildings that make us walk in certain patterns: the Lampoon's crazy island, whose wedge I always walk the long way round on my way home so as to pass the Starr bookstore and not the garbage cans; architectural features that define our perceptions, like the daises of lecture rooms in Sever or Emerson...
...nice going John. You're really cool. May you walk under a ladder and get called for illegal use of hands...
...KOVIC, age 19, lies paralyzed in a Veteran's Administration hospital. He can feel nothing below his chest. He will never again walk nor make love to a woman: his condition is permanent and without hope. A "Yankee Doodle boy born on the Fourth of July," he had gone to Vietnam in defense of the American dream and to fight the scourge of communism. He has returned not as the conquering hero, but as a cripple, his spinal cord shattered by a volley of rifle fire. The young president's words linger in his mind, the words of the president...
...country residence], which is a wonderful place to work. But while I was there I was working so hard that I never got a chance to even go for a swim in the pool that was given to us by [former U.S. Ambassador] Walter Annenberg or to walk around the rose garden in beautiful weather. There was one thing I predicted I would miss-and I was right. That is the switchboard. It was first class. You picked up the phone and asked for someone, and you got him, no matter where. Now you've got to dial...
...table and got a good laugh when she sat down at a desk and tried to type, she generally spoke in a whiny monotone, delivered her lines by rote, and in one scene answered a door buzzer before it buzzed. "I knew that I wasn't going to walk off with an Academy Award," she confessed later, "but this is a morality play, and I can relate to that so well...