Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fellows to act to improve their own situation. It is really too late to do anything this year about one of the most exploited groups in the Harvard community. But if anyone is interested for next year in reviving what is not a lost, but a forgotten cause, I wish they would contact me. Much research has been done on the position of teaching fellows at Harvard. It would be tragic to see it go to waste. Mrs. Susan Jhirad Department of Romance Languages Former executive member of the Teaching Fellows Federation...
...Glee Club and Choral Society will have different rehearsal times than the Harvard and Radcliffe choruses, so those who wish to can sing in both groups, Forbes said...
...story making the rounds here: There was this surfer sitting on his board off Santa Monica one day, when a bottle floated by. A note inside said: "You have been granted three wishes." He thought "sheez," but decided to give it a try. So he wished for a Cadillac convertible-and boingg-there it was on the beach. He thought "crazy," and wished for enough $100 bills to fill it. And shazam-it was filled. He started on a third wish-should it be women, fame? These he could buy. So he decided to save the third wish, and drove...
...wish that the world not be as Updike sees it--cold, without essential human feelings or grandeur--that causes me to seek a refuge in these artistic strictures. But Couples does seem a novel in which the author's volition, his thesis, have been allowed to substitute for the free play of the imagination, for a full measure of humanity for his characters...
...says Koosman, a slightly flaky 6-ft. 3-in., 205-lb. farmboy from Appleton, Minn. (pop. 3,000), who had seen only two major-league games before he first took the mound for the Mets, and whose performance so far this spring is startling even to his manager. "I wish I could take credit for him," said a dazed Gil Hodges, after Koosman posted a 3-1 victory over the Houston Astros last week...