Word: arens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aren't you going to wear anything to the dance...
...variously explained: by the hero, elite, or secrecy theory. The hero theory credits the HPC achievements to its 1967-68 chairman, Henry R. Norr '68, an extraordinarily shrewd and articulate advocate of the student proposals. The elite theory holds that the HPC gets things done because its members aren't elected (they are chosen by House Masters and House committees) and are therefore more capable than the kind of student who goes in for campaigning in student elections. A final explanation of the HPC's success (held by many of the members) is that they get things done by meeting...
Kennedy was damn smart. Most American leaders aren't. When he came to South America he knew what was going on. Hell, he knew more about student problems than some of the students did. --a Brazilian student at Harvard outside Lowell House this week...
...return. So out went a form letter to one William R. Clark, a 40-year-old Government employee, asking him to report to his local IRS office. Clark showed up punctually and was hunched over his forms when a supervisor passed the cubicle-and did a double take. "Aren't you Ramsey Clark?" asked the flabbergasted IRS agent. "Yes," nodded the Attorney General of the United States, who then quietly turned back to his papers. The error, as it turned out, was in Clark's favor; he had paid too much in 1967 taxes, and collected...
...high. In what may have been the first instance of lbis stealing, in 1941, five Crimson editors were bound, gagged, and buried in copies of their own newspaper. Coles Phinizy, president of the Lampoon, displayed Mafia-like toughness declaring, "The lbis is worth 150 dollars, and those guys aren't worth 20 dollars apiece. They'll get nothing but dried toast and an occasional drink of water until we do get it back." They got it back...