Word: editor
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...Raised in Beverly, a middle-class neighborhood in Chicago, Forst “never did anything terribly wildly unusual,” his mother Ann Thole recalls of his early years. A graduate of an all-boys Catholic high school in downtown Chicago, Forst was the editor of the high school newspaper who exhibited “quiet leadership,” according to high school friend Peter Wuertz. Described by his three closest high school friends as the social planner of the group, Forst would later become president of the final club D.U. (which would eventually merge with...
Jessica A. Sequeira ’11, a Crimson associate editorial editor, is a social studies concentrator in Winthrop House...
...full 20 years after my first job that I met my first word processor and understood that that term referred to a machine, not a person who was an editor. The first time someone yelled “the server is down,” I was terrified that some unknown staff assistant had been felled. I have experienced the horror of seeing a multi-page document scroll up at a rapid pace, deleting every sentence along the way. And I have many times been forced to use “Force Quit” when confronted with a frozen...
...successful comp for The Crimson, each new editor in my cohort was asked to name his or her politics for recording in a great book that no non-editor would ever be allowed to see. Amid a litany of “Democrat,” “Republican” and the occasional “democratic socialist,” my answer stood out for its confession of the shared reason that we were all together at Harvard and in the upper room of 14 Plympton Street: “intellectual elitism.” That moment...
...that could turn out tanks. The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor buzzed with boffins working on government contracts, and in 1948, the campus had 21,000 students enrolled - or a fifth of the total number of students at every university in France. Two years earlier, a veteran editor of the Detroit Free Press wrote, without irony, "Detroit has been hailed as Detroit the Dynamic, Detroit the Wonder City...