Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...INABILITY of Harvard students to talk about their faiths may be part of a general trend in the United States. And it may not be all bad. When religion wasn't the private matter it is now, Quakers were hanged on Boston Common...
...virtue of a donation to Harvard, but only because of superior qualifications to perform the responsibilities of the post." The issue may be clear cut, but President Bok should be more aware than he seems to be of failures to meet his ideal. How, for instance, may the common practice of naming big givers such as Ivan Boesky to seats on visiting committees be reconciled with the notion? Does wealth give someone the right to evaluate a faculty? Harvard should face such questions forthrightly...
...married and a successful psychotherapist; Alix Bowen, ditto and a believer in socially useful work like teaching English literature to female criminals; Esther Breuer, unmarried and a dilettantish specialist in the early Italian Renaissance. Although they have taken different paths, Liz, Alix and Esther share a long friendship and common bonds dating back to their student days at Cambridge in the 1950s. "These three women," Drabble notes, "it will readily and perhaps with some irritation be perceived, were amongst the creme de la creme of their generation." What have time and circumstances done to the best and the brightest...
When a Jeep Cherokee or a pickup truck with smoked windows approaches the main gate of the University of El Salvador, some students instinctively dart for cover. Though such vehicles are common in El Salvador's capital, they have gained notoriety as the favored conveyance of right-wing death squads, and occasionally spray the campus with anonymous gunfire. Two months ago the head of the university's employees' union was shoved into a black-windowed truck. He has not been seen since...
Experts point out that people who embark on a low fat-high exercise program in order to achieve a lean body may be surprised by one common result. Replacing fat with muscle often produces only a minor drop in weight, and sometimes even a gain. Patti O'Brien, 34, an editor in New York City who participates in triathlons, has reduced her body fat from 17% to about 11% over the past 18 months; she now weighs 132 lbs., only 3 lbs. less than before. Still, she does have a firmer, slimmer body. Says a jubilant O'Brien: "My clothing...