Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rhonda L. Karol '84 was walking back from the library when we saw a group of students sarcastically singing "God Bless America." Laura A. Haight '84 remembers "getting drunk with a friend of mine who had never gotten drunk before. A bunch of us went around wearing black...
...social life of Harvard in the late '50s receives mixed reports from these former classmates. Yale's Professor Brooks, a member of the Fly Club, recalls that there was a "tremendous amount of drinking. Not to get drunk, but it seemed that there was a cocktail party every night of the week during the Spring, somewhat reminiscent of Brideshead Revisited." Yale, he says, is, "on the whole grubbier and lacking in that certain elegance and anglophilia that Harvard's always maintained...
...shifted. In 1925 Keynes wed the beautiful Russian ballerina Lydia Lopokova. Their marriage endured for the rest of his life. So full were his days on earth that Keynes was able to recall only one regret shortly before his 1946 death: he was sorry, he said, not to have drunk more champagne...
...asked the management to install a 6-ft. by 8-ft. parquet dance floor in his fourth-floor suite. Jackson appeared next at the White House, to be lauded by the President and Nancy Reagan for allowing his song Beat It to be used in a Government anti-drunk-driving ad campaign. Resplendent in his glittery white glove and electric blue Sgt. Pepper jacket, Jackson looked more like a visiting head of state than a singer. During a White House tour, the pop idol was intrigued by a portrait of Andrew Jackson, whose military jacket was vaguely similar...
...psychologically and financially. He allows himself to be drawn into the eternal argumentation, coffee drinking and poker games. Revealing gestures that he rooted out of his nervous system as a young man begin to reappear. He puts on weight. From time to time he descends to the village, gets drunk, and returns muttering that Jews are liars, cheats and money grubbers. But despite this Gentile blustering, the fact is that he has become one of the weakest and most Jewish of the retreat's inmates...