Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spring break apologizing to friends and acquaintances because of your article. You have certainly not reinforced in many minds the image of Harvard as a bastion of warmheartedness and generosity. You have also no doubt hampered the efforts of Harvard admissions officers and athletic coaches who recruit talented and bright students from an area where they have had notable success. In your tounge-and-check apologies you make no reference to these issues. The Harvard Crimson is a campus newspaper, or at least should be. Your journalism has done little to promote the reputation of Harvard-Radcliffe and much...
...influx of Vietnamese refugees plying an old trade in a new land. Shang (Ed Harris) is one such rowdy all-American, working his ancestral fishing grounds and feeling threatened by the Asians he fought to defend a world and a war ago. Dinh (Ho Nguyen) is a bright, ambitious immigrant who wants a chance to make a living in Port Alamo, whatever the odds. "You gotta be one of the last cowboys left in Texas," Dinh is told by Shang's lady friend Glory (Amy Madigan), who finds her loyalties stretched tight. There is no easy, noble...
...from the start that the "Shamrock Summit" in Quebec City last week would be more show than substance: a piece of political theater staged not so much to solve international problems as to create an atmosphere conducive to seeking their solution. From the moment that President Reagan, sporting a bright green necktie in honor of St. Patrick's Day, stepped off Air Force One at Ancienne Lorette Airport to the final handshake that Reagan and Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney exchanged on the gray stone battlements of the historic Citadel, the meeting was as carefully choreographed as a ballet. Indeed...
...good help nowadays. Yet that is the fundamental problem faced by the heroine of Mary Gordon's third novel. Anne Foster, 38, has just about everything, including a Harvard Ph.D. in art history and what one of her many adoring friends calls "the only decent marriage in America." Her bright and handsome husband Michael, a professor at a Massachusetts college, is due to spend an academic year teaching in France. Ordinarily, the wife and the children, Peter, 9, and Sarah, 6, would go with . him. But Anne has been asked to write the catalog for a new exhibit...
...than the possible answers. The novel's intellectual vigor is occasionally blunted by the earnest opacity of its heroine. Despite the assurances of two different characters that Anne has "a first-rate mind," she often must thrash through her solipsism and self-absorption toward revelations that most adults and bright children already know. She sees a pair of boots in a Manhattan store and realizes, since she is now winning some bread on her own, that she can buy them. She does so and then gives herself a lengthy talking-to that concludes: "She hated to say it, she hadn...