Word: boyness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...program would be destroyed" if it were integrated, said Gisela I. Mohring '00. "I don't think [men] would get as much out of it as we would... Women don't have these old-boy networks as men do--programs like these bridge...
Monica's Story is a collection of refrigerator-magnet cliches strung together over 280 pages, until you want to scream if she says, "I love the little boy in him," one more time. Grab a few of her dippy observations at random--"I cried myself to sleep," "I saw him as a man, not as the President," "He promised me he would [fill in the blank]"--add bathos, and you have a typical paragraph. Repeat three times, and you have a page. Spritz with psychobabble and enough self-improvement rhetoric to fuel a Weight Watchers convention, and you have...
...Boston is near and while the custom of Boston Society of inviting an unknown list of sophomores to meet their daughters at their debutante dances is not an unmixed blessing for boys engrossed in studies, neither is it an unmixed evil. This training does not make for good manners, tending to make a snob of an impressionable boy, who learns to think that he has been sought after by a social Boston of which he does not altogether approve, of which he may even be a bit contemptuous. Yet it does open a door for a needed contact with girls...
Melo arrived in Boston as a boy of 15 from the island of Terceira with his parents, three of his four brothers and two of his three sisters...
...told of a 13-year-old boy who had lost his family to genocide. Ayers took the boy into his family, but after a year the boy was forced into the military, and began training...