Word: worded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finally, midnight arrives. We meet on Mass. Ave. and walk to Pamplona, both carrying draft copies of our papers. We'll be intellectual even while we take a break, away from the ominous blinking of the Macintosh, reminding me that every word I type is making the paper more overdue...
Last year, under the administration of Chairman Richard S. Eisert '88, the council worked to establish a 24-hour word-processing center and Sunday hours for Widener Library. Both efforts were successful. Political issues, such as divestment and Harvard's closed governing bodies, were debated about as hotly as whether to ask the dining halls to provide cereal at every meal...
...made it. At 9 a.m. a man identified only as Rubio staggered ashore in Nagua and provided the first word of the tragedy. Others drifted with the current as far as 20 miles out to sea and into shark-filled waters. Some of the victims might have been saved had prompt measures been taken after Rubio's alert. Yet military authorities, complained Civil Defense Director Cabral, did not respond to his call for rescue helicopters. In a desperate effort to locate the survivors himself, he commandeered a private plane, from which he watched the sickening scene. Said Cabral...
...would later become -- in Critic Peter Stitt's phrase -- "one of the very great heroes of American poetry" used to drop by Margret Ashbrook's house and slide his poems across the table for Margret and her mom to see. "He showed us a poem that had the word slob in it, and we told him that was an unpoetic word," recalls Margret. "But he said that's how it is, and that's how he feels, and that's how it's gonna stay. We tried all the time to get him to change things...
Together, book and movie create a portrait of the shaman as showman -- demanding everything of himself and his sidemen so he can give everything onstage. The autobiography shows him honing his lyrics, teasing the word "motoring" into "motorvating" for Maybellene, finding inspiration for a verse of Brown Eyed Handsome Man from Sacher-Masoch's novel Venus in Furs, fretting that while in prison he cannot gain access to a map that would help him chart Po' Boy's itinerary in Promised Land. And once he got it right, he always wanted it to be the same kind of right...