Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early January, before any policy changes,both A.D. President John "Jake" H. Heller and '99and Delphic President William L. Burke '99 toldThe Crimson that since the early 1980s, finalclubs have been hosting more and more openparties...
...face of such success, it's almost churlish to bring up the question of longevity, but some have already raised the name of Tiffany, the 1980s one-hit wonder whose career rose to great heights and then abruptly plummeted. "We're two totally different people, and our sound is totally different," Spears told a Toronto newspaper. True, Spears has the tools for a long career, just as long as top-notch songs keep coming her way. But teen pop is about the here and now, so why worry about tomorrow...
Though Smith cautions that the days ofKissinger brought more celebrity than enduringscholarship, he says the department gained muchdistinction during the 1980s with Verba at thehelm. But the current curricular holes and athinly-staffed Faculty are undermining much ofthat prestige...
...former Lowell House master William H. Bossert '59 described with fondness the days when the House committee would regularly plan parties which most of the residents would attend. He attributed the declining role of the House in Harvard social life to the raising of the drinking age in the 1980s, which forced weekend activities off campus to bars in the Square and the final clubs. I think part of the demise of the House is explained by the astronomical rise in the number of student organizations in recent decades and the growing importance of extracurricular, athletic and other College-wide...
...runs. It raked over his hard-partying past, his affair that destroyed his first marriage, and his second wife's onetime addiction to pain-killers. Before the final credits rolled, it had also worked through his involvement (and exoneration) in the Keating Five savings and loan scandal of the 1980s...