Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doing what? Writing a what? Not just any novel but a work that has grabbed the attention of New York literati. "It [Bonfire of the Vanities] is the first novel that I can remember since Catcher in the Rye that you can assume everybody has read. It is a common denominator among literary people," says Clay Felker, who edited Wolfe two decades ago back at The New York Herald Tribune and is now editor of Manhattan...
...four have acted on their common interest in drama and music--Stone as a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus, Martin as president of the Gilbert and Sullivan Players, Salovaara as president of the Currier House Drama Society, and Elby as a member of the house drama and music societies...
...creative forces in Harvard theater tried to break down the barriers between audiences and performers. Senior Randy Weiner's troupe Project Space Six (PSS) toured Winthrop House one night, knocking on doors and performing a short play in people's common rooms. PSS drew raves for its rap musical, The Gang's New Threads, which was really The Emperor's New Clothes updated to critique present-day fashion trends in Harvard Square. It was hip, it was funny, it was even socially relevant--and the all-original raps, produced in dorm-room jam sessions, were fresh...
...eyes on Erik J. Salovaara '88 in the freshman suite they would share in Wigglesworth Hall, he was not impressed. As Martin tells it, "I'm living with a bagman" was the first thought to cross his mind as he saw the groggy, half-dressed Salovaara stumble into the common room to meet Martin and his parents. The impression was reinforced when he realized that the stench of his roommate's clothes permeated the suite...
Initial impressions aside, the foursome quickly discovered that they shared much in common. "We were Harvard's ultimate social engineering project. The number of connections of interests you can draw between us is incredible," Martin says...