Word: commentating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mercifully, some brave soul does eventually speak. Everyone then immediately looks up and gazes pensively into the middle distance, brows furrowed, nodding sagely. This one comment is all Harvard students need to get them going and before long we are locked in vigorous debate, comparing Aristotle, Levi-Strauss, Virginia Woolf and the early years of the Jackson Five. Our work here is done. Finally, it is time for lunch...
...retrospect, I have devoted my time at Harvard to cultivating contrarianism. It has not always been a chosen or a conscious endeavor with me, but as my colleague's comment illustrates, it seems to be realized one. That most readers would agree with label only pleases me more...
...President Clinton referred to a private citizen as "Joe Six-Pack" [NATION, April 13]. I object to this characterization. Clinton's arrogance and obvious disregard for the average person is appalling. During the 1992 campaign, President George Bush called Clinton a "bozo." At the time, I thought Bush's comment was unstatesmanlike. But now I'm wondering if Bush didn't have a greater insight into Clinton's character than anyone imagined. LARRY MUNSTERMAN Pacific City...
...daughters declined comment but appeared in court with their father. Kurth condemned Fagan for living an "incredible charade." At the time of the divorce, he had accused her of being an alcoholic and an unfit mother (her lawyer denies both charges). She accused him of involvement in unspecified fraud, and she got custody...
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