Word: cameronism
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Mike's first marriage lasted less than a year ("A round-tripper," he calls it. "In and out fast"). He and his second wife, Colleen Sterns, have a son, Cameron, 2, the only Reagan grandson. Mike also campaigns for his father on weekends, mostly in California. "Sometimes," he says, "I argue with him about his style. I tell him he should come across strong more often. It takes a lot to make Dad angry, but when...
Robert A. Cameron '49, a committee member and the president of Johnson and Higgins insurance brokerage firm, says the ACSR is less conservative than in the past and "in general, its members are thinking a bit more, not just blindly voting" at the urging of certain committee members. Richard Valelly, a graduate student in government and committee member, also notes a "more receptive frame of mind" on the part of faculty and alumni members; both he and Vagts attribute the more activist votes in part to the fact that "students did their homework and presented their arguments well...
...when Harvard men of other years would have headed for the open path to success, the class of '30 found itself roadblocked by the Depression. Not surprisingly, these men often took whatever jobs they could get: Cameron Blaikie Jr. '30 reports positions as an apprentice iron worker, salesman for a chimney-cleaning oufit, bill collector, and finally a railroad...
Instead of succumbing to this uncertainty, Hellman illustrates it. For her ostensible subject, she chooses Sarah Cameron, a rich, frivolous American woman who has dropped briefly into Hellman's life at widely separated times and places: Rome, rural France, Hollywood, Harlem. She is evidently pseudonymous and may be fictional as well. It hardly matters here. What matters to Hellman is that Sarah's story seems beyond the author's powers to tell. "Why am I writing about Sarah?" she wonders. "I really only began to think about her a few years ago, and then not often. Although...
...succeeds, not in bringing Sarah Cameron to life but in capturing an altogether different subject: the enigma of experiences filtered through memory. As if dropping a clue, Hellman mentions Proust in passing. Her method, as it turns out, is the opposite of his. She extracts drama from the act of forgetting: "As time and much of life has passed, my memory-which for the purpose of this tale has kept me awake sorting out what I am certain of, what maybe I added to what, because I didn't see or know the people-won't supply what...