Word: calling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instructor, was a rabid misogynist, but I couldn't believe that a university as prestigious as Harvard would tolerate such a thing. So two of my friends and I signed up for the course. Mr. Kemp took an instant and immediate dislike to my two friends. He would call them "sister," openly disparage what they said in class, and gave one of them a D. Knowing of Mr. Kemp's reputation, the Radcliffe dean allowed my friend to take a fifth course the following term to make up her failing grade. I don't know whether the Radcliffe administration, headed...
...always used to call it [cultural diversity] the "hidden curriculum," says Loretta Long, one of the original cast members who plays Susan on the show...
...while the class remained marked by the War--it was not only the largest but the oldest in history--seniors in the class of 1948 could give up their war-torn fatigues and opt for what author Sloan Wilson would later call "the gray flannel suit" (on sale at the Coop for $45 to $60 by April...
Edward Kennedy agrees that this call to actionwould be Robert Kennedy's legacy...
...Phil Hartman did a great Frank Sinatra; he did a great Ed McMahon. He did a great Bill Clinton. But the most common character was one we could only call Phil Hartman: smarmy, oily, eminently superficial. We assumed that was all there was to know about Hartman, that he made us chuckle and do our own impressions of him. That was apparently the way Hartman wanted it. Now we'll never know...