Word: comments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hafferty, who went home yesterday, could not be reached for comment...
Heiskell is entirely justified in declaring that the Corporation will not meet with any Tom, Dick or Harry who knocks on the door of 17 Quincy Street, but that comment is totally inappropriate in these circumstances. The student groups in question include the two recognized institutions of student government on campus. Moreover, the other groups involved have repeatedly demonstrated that they enjoy support from a significant portion of the community. If such a coalition does not even merit an audience with the Corporation, then we must assume no one does...
...Luftwaffe dominated the skies. Dahl piloted one of a dozen planes sent up to meet some 200 enemy aircraft in the Battle of Athens. During these two years, 13 of the original 16 members of his flying class were killed, frequently in the face of overwhelming odds. His comment on the sacrifice has considerable moral bite: "In retrospect, one gasps at the waste of life...
...German border guards at any moment. "They had binoculars trained on me, cameras clicking practically the whole time, and then their heads appeared over the top of the wall to glare at me at point-blank range," said Haring. "I tell you, it was a bit scary." Not a comment to be taken lightly from someone who got his start painting in the New York City subway system...
...Harvard student, Eric L. Kaplan '89, made it into the anthology. He submitted "Development of an Idea," a mystifying semiparody of philosophical jargon, to Yale's admissions office. In his essay Kaplan circumlocutiously traces an idea he first had at age 12, which developed into empathy with the Nietzschian comment, "Nobody will guess how you looked in your morning, you sudden sparks and wonders of my solitude." Kaplan closed his essay by appealing to admissions officers, "This essay is a try at letting others guess...