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...undergraduate activity on campus. The student center proposed by Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57, if built, should be named after Roosevelt, rather than some oil-rich Texan couple or arms-dealing Iranian expatriate seeking the luster of the Harvard name to drop during fashionable Cambridge cocktail parties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Name Student Center After F.D.R. | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

BESIDES his ideas, Kemp's contagious enthusiasm, sincere compassion and unshakable optimism are personal qualities that Democrats--with the exception of Jesse Jackson--have lacked since the days of Bobby Kennedy. While cocktail party liberals talk about the poor, Kemp talks with them, face to face on his many tours through the most embattled streets of America...

Author: By Mark J. Sneider, | Title: Progressive Conservatism is no Oxymoron | 4/11/1990 | See Source »

Drapeau flips the burgers and brings them, still dripping with grease, to the counter. Smith lays out buns and cheese, puts on lettuce and mayonnaise, and skewers the burgers with a cocktail toothpick...

Author: By Maya E. Fischhoff, | Title: Eating Hot Dogs at the Midnight Hour | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

...trial, the private doings of public figures preoccupy the supposedly serious mainstream press. Decades after Walter Winchell, Louella Parsons, Hedda Hopper and their ilk went the way of the dodo, their patented elixir of career hype, marital comings and goings, feuds, fortunes and celebrity pratfalls has become the journalistic cocktail of choice. In the great public circus of American life, gossip is back in the center ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gossip: Pssst...Did You Hear About? | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

...Cocktail Hour Horrors--Women faculty in Harvard's science departments say they often feel like an embattled minority. Jill Bonner, a former Bunting Institute fellow, recalls one encounter with Harvard's predominantly male science departments: "They were invited over to the Bunting Institute for cocktails, and the Harvard male faculty just stood there, hardly speaking a word to the Bunting fellows, each a distinguished scholar in her own right...They're very happy slapping each other on the backs at local clubs, but put them with women and they shut up like clams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 2/24/1990 | See Source »

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