Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Reunited in their 40s, they are a lively bunch. But Conroy, who has thrived by writing in the first-person portentous, burdens his already preoccupied characters with the bloody 20th century. Attempts to relate the madness of Vietnam to Hitler's evil are loopy. So is some of Conroy's rhetoric. "Through no preference or selection of our own," begins one chapter, "the graduating class of 1966, in high schools all over America, found ourselves cast like dice across the velvet-covered gambling tables of history ... the best we could do was cover our eyes and ears and genitalia like...
...Last [week], we had the first meeting of our newly-formed educational committee," he says. "What was really exciting is that we had a bunch of people who were interested on a very warm night...
Harvard's main thorns throughout the year were Brown and UMass. The water polo season consists almost entirely of a bunch of tournaments, so it is common for teams to face each other three times. That's exactly what Harvard did with Brown and UMass, and the Crimson ended up losing all six of those contests...
...says she does not believe that the Frenchsection is feminist if that means "a bunch ofdogmatic militant feminists who teach nothing butworks we consider `politically correct...
Carsey Yee, a graduate student and resident tutor in Adams House, says "even if there were no concept of affirmative action, hiring would still be done on a racial basis. You'd have a bunch of 35 year-old white boys hiring another 35 year-old white boy, because people hire the people they feel most comfortable with...