Word: wish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wish early nights, and many a soft dream...
Reason disappears in the face of magic. You no longer say, "It can't really be happening this way," you wish it were happening this...
...return to the original question: what have I learned? My senior tutor, if I knew his name, would probably wish for me to say that I learned a great deal about Mathematics, Systematics, German, Fine Arts, Sanskrit, Archaeology, Biology, and Pottery, during my three and a half years at fair Harvard. But somehow, what little book learning I have acquired here seem pale and gaunt compared to the true wisdom I have come to call my own. Stand ever firm, O Stacks of Widener; but not down thy revered stacks shall I tread...
...understand it, the new missile reduction treaty between the United States and the U.S.S.R. requires only the "demilitarization" of rockets. Once the warheads have been removed, American and Soviet leaders may do what they wish with the rockets themselves...
Dayal Kaur Khalsa introduces a more familiar animal in I Want a Dog (Potter; $10.95). An eager young girl named May has only one wish, a canine of her own. "When you're older," replies an elder, and the highly colored tale begins. May carries a slice of salami, and gets trailed by ten potential pets who just happen to follow her home. The answer is no. Desperately, she goes everywhere with a roller skate on a leash, to prove that she is capable of caring for something besides herself. Along the way, she learns a double moral: the value...