Word: annelies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tides. Why else would you place a venerable, old professor's memorial statue in the middle of the Commonwealth Avenue Pedestrian Mall, in a neighborhood in which he never lived, looking like he just spent a day at sea, and not depict one of his best works?" says Mary Ann Rothstein of Newton...
...informal ceremony held Monday afternoon in the Barker Center's Thompson Room, Assistant Professor of English and American Literature and Language Ann Pellegrini '86 received the first annual Faculty Ally Award from the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters' Alliance (BGLTSA...
...they feel particularly at home. But on the plus side, lingering bastions of old Harvard elitism were wiped out, and self-segregation has been minimized. Randomization aside, however, house life is better because of the crop of new masters who have taken the reins. In Leverett House, Howard and Ann Georgi have won universal praise by learning students' names, participating in intramural events, opening the dining hall at night and generally caring that people are happy. Lowell Masters Diana L. Eck and Dorothy Austin have won similar praise. The new generation of masters also seems more amenable to trying universal...
...style are rooted in her personal history. Her father, the wartime Czechoslovak diplomat Josef Korbel, was witty and gregarious, with a knack for survival. Madeleine, who as a child spent two lonely years in Belgrade when he was ambassador there, developed an instinctive antipathy toward thugs. As TIME's Ann Blackman explains in her Albright biography, Seasons of Her Life (Scribner), she mirrors him: she has a deep reservoir of intelligence and wit, but sometimes seems to wear blinders to protect her from things that clash with her self-image. For example, for years she almost willfully hid from herself...
...could forget such wonderful characters like Dentist Dan, who "filks my cavakies/Wid choclut cangy...The graygest nentis in the lan." Or poor Peggy Ann McKay (sick with the measles, mumps, a gash, a rash and purple bumps), Backwards Bill (who puts on his underwear over his clothes) and Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout (who never had a playmate because she never took the garbage...