Word: drowns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...solitude." For Bradley, a reluctant celebrity since the age of 16, the river can be about connection one minute, blessed aloneness the next. He marches onto a floating dock and we follow, threatening to swamp the old planks. Ernestine panics: "Bill! I'll go with you! If we drown, we drown together!" To avert disaster, Bradley's people tell the media to go out in mini packs. An aide complains, "It's just a bunch of pencils"--reporters, not the cameras they want. This is, after all, about pretty pictures...
Relations between Harvard and Radcliffe deteriorated further under President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, who headed Harvard in the 1910s and '20s. According to Radcliffe lore, Lowell hoped to "drown three kittens" before his term ended: Harvard's Botanic Garden, the Harvard School of Education--and Radcliffe College...
...activists gather to "threaten, abuse and physically block" the entrance to the abortion clinic (on Commonwealth Ave.). Yet it is not these protestors in peaceful prayer who give cause for alarm--but rather Osborn and others as they shout "Racist, sexist, anti-gay, born-again bigots go away!" to drown out the prayers of the crowd...
...activists gather to "threaten, abuse and physically block" the entrance to the abortion clinic (on Commonwealth Ave.). Yet it is not these protestors in peaceful prayer who give cause for alarm-but rather Osborn and others as they shout "Racist, sexist, anti-gay, born-again bigots go away!" to drown out the prayers of the crowd...
...action was going to be taken in any case; the debate was to determine the level of severity. Outside University Hall gathered students drumming and chanting, a happy little mob urging that "justice be done!" This would not be the first group of self-righteous protesters that tries to drown out debate with thuggish tactics, but the tactics were especially troubling in light of the case being discussed...