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...Pensacola, Fla., Michelle Gale is struggling with the day-to-day challenges of raising eight children on less than half the $80,000 salary her Army reservist husband Randy was earning as a lineman for Sprint. He left three months ago for what could be two years with the 350th Civil Affairs Command in Hungary. Michelle fixed the dryer herself to save the service charge, but then the car broke down. Their savings account has shrunk to $175, and groceries alone cost $800 a month. When Randy asks how things are going, Michelle tries to change the subject. "I hate...
...fraying of these bonds was well underway by the time Harvard became “America’s University” in the 1950s and 1960s. It continued into the 1980s. Prince Charles’ presence at the 350th anniversary celebration in 1986 implicitly recognized Harvard as the Free World’s University. If anything, it accelerated in the past decade. In the last year, Harvard’s status as the “Whole World’s University” has been validated not by a British royal but by the 1.1 million purchasers...
...Oscar Wilde’s The Remarkable Rocket. (Said rocket shot off in an orgasmic shudder at the “climax” of the play. No, really.) The newspaper, which I edited, still had to come out, and we were producing a special video celebrating the 350th anniversary of our school on the side. And the chess team was headed to L.A. for Nationals...
Meanwhile, Cabot Professor of English Literature and of Afro-American Studies Werner Sollors, who was then the energetic and resourceful chair of the department, was also working to raise the program’s visibility. With the 350th anniversary of the College less than a year away, he devised a plan. He and a few department members had recently published an informational pamphlet illustrated with photographs of African-American writers of Harvard. Why not ask the administration to underwrite the republication of these authors in a larger pamphlet for distribution at the 350th? The President and Fellows assented...
Despite lost sleep and technical crises, we made the deadline; 600 copies of Varieties of Black Experience at Harvard were bound and distributed at the 350th anniversary celebration. When the print run was quickly exhausted and suppliers requested book orders, we sent a manuscript to Harvard University Press to see whether they might publish an expanded edition. But when Harvard politely declined the project, we turned elsewhere. Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr., who was then professor of English, comparative literature and Africana studies at Cornell University, generously offered to publish an expanded edition of the book in a series...