Word: diehard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only for students but also for alumnae (whose lives as such are much longer than a short four student years)--are vastly greater and more complex than a description of "silly squabbling," of petty sibling bickering, would make them seem. These stakes trace directly back to Harvard's diehard historic image as America's premier gentlemen's club; to Harvard's increasing neglect of undergraduate life and instruction as its professional graduate schools have become even more gargantuan pots and magnets for both private and governmental funding and attention; and above all to Harvard's special connection not to liberal...
...that's just the point. "There is a lot of room for disappointment," notes Tom McManus, a market strategist in Katonah, N.Y. "People have forgotten how easily things can go wrong." What if we don't quickly knock out Saddam's weapons of mass destruction? Other than a few diehard militarists, no one possesses the will to keep at it indefinitely...
...effort to make students more involved in the exhibition process, professors asked them to submit works on paper priced for less than $100 (later, sculpture was also admitted). Then a Faculty jury pared down submissions, making the exhibition far less cluttered and more potent than usual. Even for diehard Carpenter Center voyeurs, the show comes almost as a revelation: yes, VES students are learning how to draw and sculpt, but more importantly, they have something...
...last cup of coffee at 2 JFK St. was served to a true Tasty diehard. Bob Richards, a Cambridge resident who has been going to the Tasty since he was a high school student in 1951, had the honor of imbibing the last mug of coffee...
...bother with this year's festival if you've seen it before or unless you like "South Park." If you're a diehard fan, I can't stop you but, damn it, I tried...