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Before you graduate, be sure to drop by the Thursday afternoon office hours of Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III. There, you'll be able to bask in his distinctive accent and unique taste in clothing. The dean, who also has a top-notch singing voice, appears to be particularly fond of bow ties, hats and red carnations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Who's Who at Harvard: Meet the University's Chief Paper Pushers | 7/3/1992 | See Source »

...feel good about their infidelities, as Heyn's fluid narrative suggests. Rather, the news is that after 30 years of battling to shore up women's self-esteem and break down entrenched sex roles, the feminist movement has achieved nothing. That women have learned nothing. That women still bask in a sense of worthlessness that sounds ominously like Betty Friedan's "problem with no name." If all of this is true, feminists should regard this book with considerable alarm and demand that the problem be explored systematically (Heyn readily admits that her sampling is not scientific) to diagnose the cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revenge of Donna Reed | 6/22/1992 | See Source »

...Haven Harvard-Yale Game since before the War. Together with their colored feathers and old fur coats, they bring traditions and memories of Mahan and Heffelfinger, Booth and Wood, Frank and Struck--great names of ten or thirty years ago. But more than that, they come anxious to bask in the spirit and participate in the festivities of the occasion; to join with the two teams in writing a new chapter in the unique legend of this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Game through The Ages | 11/23/1991 | See Source »

...took the opportunity to leave Cambridge for a while to visit places they didn't have a chance to see during their busy Harvard careers. A handful of seniors, who chose the travel option, split up into two cars that were slated to slither down the East coast to bask in Florida's beautiful weather. But, after both cars took a wrong turn that landed them in Philadelphia, only one kept its original agenda. Each trek turned out to be far from routine...

Author: By Jonathan Samuels, | Title: WACKY WAYS TO KILL A WEEK | 6/5/1991 | See Source »

Polls show that Richards' constituents are supportive of her fast start. As she puts it, "The mood of activism seems to be pleasing people." With admirers mobbing her whenever she leaves her second-floor office, Richards can afford for now to ignore scattered criticism and bask in the honeymoon glow. The real test of her political skills will come when she has run out of boards to appoint people to and can no longer avoid tough decisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ann Richards: Winds Of Change Sweep The Lone Star State | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

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