Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more subtle level, many students have come to abhor and cherish the "R" of Radcliffe in creating acronyms for their groups. The hard-to-pronounce double constant combo HR has provided struggle and relief in creating acronyms. There are some clear winners and losers...
Over the past several years, ethnic student groups have become more involved in community service and smaller community service groups like Harvard-Radcliffe Little People have sprung up, while PBHA's 1700 student membership has remained constant...
...most bizarre response to the search for "noir" has to belong to "The Penmaster's Place." The eponymous Penmaster, who appears at the top of the page in his "human disguise," claims to be the self-appointed commander of a master-race of evil penguins who are in a constant guerrilla struggle to take over the universe. At first glance, this seems to be an elaborate front for a psychotic Pittsburgh Penguins fan, but in fact there are far more devious forces at work here. The Penmaster heralds the imminent reign of penguins, which he insists "do terrible, terrible things...
...children's extreme vulnerability; their storms of anger and irrationality and their dramatically imaginative lives, which conjure monsters and heroes and set them in motion--whole Iliads. Those imaginations sometimes indulge crazy fantasies of revenge and annihilating vindication. The vulnerability, anger and extreme fantasies of children have been a constant over the centuries, I think. The late 20th century has not reinvented human nature, even though American perfectionism, in league with what is perhaps the amnesia of the dollar people on the subject of human tragedy, may encourage that illusion...
DIED. DAVE POWERS, 85, constant companion and amiable aide-de-camp of John F. Kennedy; in Arlington, Mass. Powers joined congressional candidate Kennedy in 1946 and stayed with him all the way to the White House and beyond. Powers was riding in the presidential motorcade the day Kennedy was shot, and he accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy on the flight of Air Force One back to Washington. At one point she turned to him and said, "Oh, Dave, you've been with him all these years. What will you do now?" The answer was to continue to serve, as a companion...