Word: confidante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gates has been a confidant of the Gore family for years. He assisted the Vice President's eldest daughter Karenna Gore Schiff '95 with her senior thesis, which focused on slave narratives.
Martin Peretz, the New Republic editor in chief, Gore confidant and Harvard lecturer, tried to minimize West's potential impact on the Bradley campaign to the Phoenix reporter.
This novel has pretensions, but they are overridden by Allende's riproaring girl's adventure story. In fact, the book exemplifies the new feminist approach by plugging late 20th century cultural attitudes into a spacious 19th century literary vehicle. Like Una Spencer, Eliza Sommers makes her way in the world...
Nathans agrees that students should have some sort of confidant in the administration but disagrees that proctors properly fill this role--the United Ministry, she suggests, is a more appropriate confidential resource.
But Halder, in a smart performance by Arciniegas, a member of the theater department at Wellesley College, is a frustrated soul. His way of coping with stress is to hear imaginary band music, from cabaret numbers to classical symphonic excerpts. And he has much to be stressed about. His wife...