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...course, the ruse counted for nothing; college tuition, which he also provided, was much more effective. Like most Jews who anglicized their names, my family continued to advertise its real identity in many ways. By the time my father drank toasts at his grandsons' bar-mitzvah parties, the imperative for disguise was gone. Pamela Nadell, professor of Jewish studies at American University, traces the shift to the mid-1960s, when Israel's military prowess evoked group pride and the black-is-beautiful movement struck a chord among Jews, though few Jews went as far as some blacks who adopted African...
Navarrette's only recourse during his time at Harvard was RAZA and the organization's members. He writes that RAZA was "the centerpiece of my very existence at Harvard. I drank RAZA. I dated RAZA." Unfortunately for Navarrette, he alienated himself even from his friends in RAZA when he publicly criticized Cesar Chavez's leadership of the United Farm Workers...
Okay, so it was more like an hour. Okay, more like an hour-and-a-half. I was hungry after a lame pasta night, and by the look of the seductively covered chafing dishes, there would be some serious eats after the presentation. So I stayed the whole time, drank a Poland Spring mineral water, listened to management consulting yarns, and watched the backs of heads of pretty pretty people in suits. One guy had cool hair...
...Frank O'Hara was the funniest man in the universe. Never ever met anybody so funny, with his putdown epigrams. I knew Frank very well. We were in Eliot together, and he gave the best parties in Eliot. Big cocktail parties. Everybody drank all the time back then. We used to have these teas inviting people and it was just pitchers of martinis. We didn't have any beer; it was just martinis. When Dylan Thomas came, he didn't like martinis, he didn't like gin. He said it was the sort of thing made in a chemistry...
...Musselman deceived himself when he drank, alcohol also deceived Musselman by giving him this illusory sense of complete control. Musselman's return reminded him of all that he missed when he attended Harvard because of his problem with control and because of what he thought was important back then...