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...knew what show was on and what time it was on. I couldn't just turn on the TV. So I only ended up watching about three shows a week," said Velma M. McEwan '00. To make up for it, McEwan used to reenact "MacGyver" episodes. Vanessa P. Bertozzi '00 remembers her deprived childhood as a time of necessary duplicity. "My older sister, older brother and I had to sneak TV when our parents went out. We'd listen for the car coming up the driveway and then run up and turn it off. Under supervision, we were only allowed...
...McEwan and Bertozzi's childhoods were more privileged than some--there are Harvard students whose families did not own a television during their formative years. Maria D. Bradley-Moore '99 is one such student. "My father thought if we had one, he'd watch it all the time, and my mother reinforced [his decision]. She thought it was a good educational strategy," Bradley-Moore says. Her roommate, Sarah B. Jacoby '99, a Crimson editor, also grew up in a television-free household. "It was stolen Christmas Eve when I was two and we never got another one," Jacoby says...
...roommates' common lack of TV background did not influence their decision to room together, but growing up without TV does affect the lives, liberties and happinesses of those who have to endure the experience. Bertozzi expresses a deep-seated bitterness toward her little sister, who did not suffer the same restrictions she and her older siblings did. "I think it often happens that parents just give up with the youngest child," Bertozzi huffs. "The rest of the family would be at the dinner table, and she would be sitting in front of the TV, eating Lucky Charms! I couldn...
...Radcliffe Senior 24 are: Jane S. Avrich, Jeanne D. Bachelor, Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Phyllidia A. Burlingame, Audrey Choi, Amy E. Colson, De Chiazza, Julia Dubner, Carol A. Ensalaco, M. Zita Ezpeleta, Mary T. Giliberti, Kathleen T. Hogan, Vesna Karaklajic, Canan Karateklin, Charlene Kwok, Amy Lai, Caroline W. Neal, Anna E. Plauth, Anne T. Robinson, Roseff, Patricia A. Schoor, Andrea Shen, Miryam B. Silverman, and Lori M. Wiviott...
...went into a Beatle craze after he died," she recalled, adding that "the junior high school band I was in decided to play a lot of Beatle songs." At their final concert of the year, Bertozzi said, the lead singer of her group cried as he sang Lennon's "Imagine...