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...become the conceited house in 1959,” said Gordon. An October 12, 1959 correspondence between Gordon and his parents captures his sentiments towards his new residence. “I’m not talking about the spirits we drank—the ‘God-damn-if-Harvard-isn’t-the-best-place-in-the-whole-world-and-Quincy-House-in-particular’ spirit,” Gordon wrote. In both blueprints and character, Quincy House distinguished itself from the traditions etched in the walls of its ivy-clad counterparts. HIGH-RISE REALITYPrior...
...Harvard theater was thriving when the Loeb took the stage. “There was theater all over the place and it was pretty damn good,” said Arthur L. Kopit ’59, a playwright and Tony Award winner. Fourty-five plays had been performed in 1957 alone, productions ranging from student-written work to Shakespeare. Professional critics frequently visited from Boston to comment on current productions...
...Please stop telling everyone to get bikes. It is stupid. If I wanted a damn bike, I'd have gotten one already. I don't want one. It's expensive, I can't carry stuff with me, it might get stolen, and when there is a blizzard on December 15 next year in the middle of finals, you won't be able to use it. You can't wear a suit or other dress clothes on one, especially in the winter when they will get ruined.” (Mckinsey's info sesh, 2:45am, Faculty Club...
Roosevelt was enormously popular (hence the fourth term), and later administrations have tried to associate themselves with his early success. "Jerk out every damn little bill you can," President Lyndon Johnson reportedly commanded his strategist Larry O'Brien in 1965. "Put out that propaganda ... that [we've] done more than they did in Roosevelt's hundred days." Propaganda or not, Johnson actually had a very effective 100-day run: after being sworn in as Kennedy's sudden and unexpected successor, he advanced the passage of the Civil Rights Bill, established the Warren Commission to investigate J.F.K.'s assassination...
...their first new cars, they'll be looking at the brands they know best, just as their father did a generation ago. Their old man wishes, in his heart, that they could buy a Pontiac. But his brain, and his wallet, dictate otherwise. Pontiac didn't give a damn when it lost me as a buyer 30 years ago, but I find myself profoundly saddened by its passing. Turns out that I may have cared more than they...