Word: beg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every Commencement, returning alumni get a particularly vivid demonstration of Harvard's pragmatism. From one side, the University's familiar agents hold out their many hands, palm up, underlining the power alumni carry in their purses. And from the other, typically, students and other groups, beg alumni to use that power of the purse for moral causes--to translate their concerns into the only language the University is likely to listen...
Christ D. Roy '86, another founder, said he hopes funds for the group will be provided by the Undergraduate Council or through an arts-supporting program on campus. We'll go and beg in the Square," he added...
...impression that every moment he did not spend writing was given over to self-promotion. Proclaiming himself top contender for the crown of best American writer, he easily picked off the title for most interviewed. Says Buzz Farbar, a boxing, film-making and writing crony: "I used to beg him not to go to talk shows, to be more like Updike or Salinger. But Norman loves the challenge." Through such efforts he reached millions who would never read him. He became famous for being famous, a condition that the case of Zsa Zsa Gabor long ago proved irreversible. Says Mailer...
...postal. The U.S. Postal Service patches are ripped off the shoulders of the sweaters of the disgraced pair. Their scales and scotch-tape dispensers are smashed, and they are demoted to forever sorting mail without zip codes in the Dead Letter Office. The wretches fall to their knees and beg for lenience, but their judges are firm, and a squad of uniformed mail-carriers come to haul the miscreants away. Cruel, perhaps, but necessary: that's the way the cookie crumbles...
...would sit down on the edge of the bench, right leg stuck out stiff, a habit acquired from practicing when he had a Broken hip. He would whip up a heavy rhythm with his left hand and play such a furious melody with his right that the tune would beg for mercy. The sound was backwoods, roadhouse. Phillips listened to all of ten seconds of Lewis' audition tape of Crazy Arms. "I can sell that," he said...