Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parents go to sleep at 10 p.m. so they have enough energy to wake me up at 7 a.m. Yesterday I had to catch a 9 a.m. flight to Boston. It takes 20 minutes to get to the airport. They woke me up at 5:15. (I wish I were joking...
...rapacious desire to bring icons down to size. Mike Tyson is merely learning lessons about the price of celebrity that Liz Taylor and Mick Jagger were forced to learn many years ago. Yet sportsmen belong to more innocent kids than do movie stars or musicians, and to adults who wish to be more innocent kids again. Tyson, moreover, appears in the ring for only a few minutes every few months, and Cabinet members work mostly behind closed doors; both are ultimately judged by professionals and peers. Boggs' skills, by contrast, are on public display up to 200 days a year...
This conversation goes on for a while, and pretty soon she's referring to Professor Chave as just plain Anna or Professor Jardine as just plain Alice and talking about the struggle she is going to have with writing a purely theoretical thesis. And the whole time, I just wish to myself that I had a can of shaving cream with me to spray on this woman's face so that she would shut up and recognize that she is essentially a goofball like the rest...
...wish to refute specific misunderstandings and false statements that appeared in the editorial. First, we never sponsored the Wellesley College Blind Date Banquet. Second, the production of A Chorus Line, which was attacked as an "unnecessary networking of a particular minority," provided much needed opportunities for Asian Americans who seldom get the chance to act. Asians are usually typecast and, thus, never get parts in traditional plays. The production finally allowed them to express their dramatic and musical talents...
...friends who happen to be of a minority background, have been at a table where we were the only minorities present on many occasions. Futhermore, I believe that it is a credit to the minority students at Harvard that they can choose to eat with whomever they wish. Besides, if a group of minority students wishes to sit at a table together, so what? However, it is also true that a table of minorities hardly represents the entire minority population...