Word: dins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fair, if Harvard does surprise us all by divesting its stock, few could argue that the message would be heard amid the din of repression and revolution in South Africa. A Harvard divestment, even following similar actions by dozens of states, cities, trusts, and universities (now including Columbia), would, as divestment opponents have argued, not be a major catalyst for change, either in the U.S. or in the apartheid state...
...anyone in the nation's newsrooms stopped to wonder whether U.S. journalists weren't seizing the bait in a colossal, sinister trap, their voices were lost in the din. The feeding frenzy had begun...
Like few other Hollywood directors, this one embraced multitudes: Gunga Din and James Dean, Cary Grant and Anne Frank. Exploiting the movies' passion for teamwork, he wrote gags for Laurel and Hardy, struck the first sparks for Tracy and Hepburn, directed Fred and Ginger in their most sublime pas de deux (Never Gonna Dance, from Swing Time). And yet, in Alice Adams, A Place in the Sun and Giant, he displayed an affinity for ambitious outsiders with their noses pressed against the frosted window of the American dream. Maddeningly meticulous, he could earn a laugh by simply waiting...
While Yale has about 15 of this type of group and Princeton also has several, Harvard has only two men's groups. And, until recently, there was only the Krokodiloes; the other men's singing group at Harvard the Din and Tonics, was founded...
Members of the two singing groups agree that rivalry among the two exists but is not particularly fierce. Din and Tonics member Ethan C. Anderson '86 says, "We take a lot more chances than the Kroks. We did our first dance number this year." He adds, "There is definitely enough talent at Harvard to fill two or more singing groups...