Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WOLFE once said that the experience of being a graduate student was so excruciatingly painful that he and his fellow sufferers were forever promising to write novels describing it. They were deterred, he recalled, by the realization that such novels would be so depressing that no one would read them and that the authors wouldn't be able to finish them anyway. Fortunately, though, Doubting Thomas by Robert Reeves '73 is a stylish exception to such a potential parade of academia's angst...
...women remember many of their instructors as sexist, 1960 alumnae interviewed say that was not at all the case with their fellow Harvard students. The Radcliffe women presented fierce competition for grades--as can be seen in many quips about them in issues of The Lampoon and The Crimson. "Our class was smarter than the boys because only three of use out of 300 graduated without honors, and there was a much larger proportion, of then," Hohenberg...
...Abroad" finds Gallant's characters pursuing an elusive freedom in Europe. A young woman seeks love on the French Riviera with the most improbable of romantic figures, a retired inspector of prisons in one of Britain's former Asian colonies. When she leaves him she takes up with a fellow "in terrible trouble -- back taxes, ex- wife seizing his salary." A pair of perpetual expatriates seem doomed to misadventure: they pile up debts; they are ostracized by fellow Ca- nadian exiles; they have rows with hotel managers, and their children throw up the foreign food...
...Imagine Franklin Roosevelt going on nationwide radio hook-up . . . and saying the following three months after Pearl Harbor: 'My fellow Americans, Hitler's armies are smashing at the gates of Leningrad, Moscow and Stalingrad. Russia will be knocked out of the war in the course of the next six to eight weeks . . . The Japanese have just destroyed the heart of our fleet at Pearl Harbor and we see no way to stop them...
...little one to pieces with a knife (as in a D&C)? And how could anyone do this--or who makes the preposterous claim that any human being has a right to do this--say that he or she is pro-life? Michael Pakaluk '79 Philosophy Teaching Fellow...