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Although Jubilee is criticized as an exercise in frivolity and unnecessary, outmoded frivolity and fraternalism, such commentary is usually leveled by those who have never participated in it. Barring total incompability with one's date, few have ever regretted the experience. The suggestive advertising which plasters the Union for months prior to Jubilee attracts attention, but Jubilee is far from an orgy in any sense of the word. It allows for enough individualism so each person can enjoy...
Harvard's official Historian has made the only substantial and removed judgment of the event to date. Samuel Eliot Morison, in his definitive study of Harvard written for the tercentennial celebration at Harvard in 1936, and appropriately called Three Centuries of Harvard, reviewed the narrative of the events...
...Skakel and Kennedy families first came together around 1940, when the children met at schools. Thereafter, their lives progressively intertwined, as they dated one another, visited back and forth, and went on outings together. Seventeen-year-old Ethel and 20-year-old Bobby met in 1945, at Mont Tremblant, a Canadian ski resort near Montreal. They liked each other ("He was so handsome!" Ethel recalls) and began to date, until Bobby turned his attentions to Ethel's quiet, bookish sister Pat. This lasted a few months by most accounts, but to Ethel it seemed "two years at least." Finally...
...first full-length character, old Leander Wapshot. "Bathe in cold water every morning," Leander counseled his sons. "Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the Lord." Yet literary means, like wars and prices, tend to escalate. In Bullet Park, trying to cope with up-to-date exurban alarums and filial excursions-including creeping despair and the generation gap -has widened farther than ever the consistent gap between Cheever's surface realism and the bizarre events and distorted perspectives of the moral allegories he pursues...
...open letter demands a response by Monday, April 28. No date had been decided upon at the mass meeting...