Word: felting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dangerfield, I've, uh, always been one of your biggest fans, ever since you winked your first bloodshot eye in the general direction of a network camera. When I found out that you had been named Harvard's 1978 Class Day Speaker, I felt it was my solemn duty to immediately make the pilgrimage down to New York to your prestigious East Side night club so I could catch your act in person and offer my personal congratulations...
...violin--great for pacing. Frye does imitations--classy. Me? I say pathetic things about myself for a living. All I've got going for me is the pathos. Did you know that Art Carney turned down an invitation to speak at Harvard Class Day Exercises in 1957 because he felt he couldn't miss a single taping of the Honeymooners? You know I write all my own material? Nobody else wanted to. I don't get no respect. The mailman bites my dog. My mother-in-law bites the mailman. My wife is so dumb that she thinks cataracts...
...fear the United Front leadership felt that night was understandable. The leaders had no way of knowing whether they were marshaling 3000 committed anti-apartheid protesters, or just a large group of college kids out for a good time. And not knowing, they ran the risk of leading an impassioned group of, say, 13 students in an assault on U-Hall reminiscent of Custer's last stand, while everyone else held back and watched. But, though they did not know it, the leaders had received a mandate from the core of protesters who remained throughout the night, and those...
History must be experienced, not merely heard or read, to be felt. The three narrators of the show, Victoria E. Allan '80, Martina N. Miller '79 and Andrea Robinson '81, are rather indistinguishable; each basically recites a series of memorized speeches. There is little attempt at dialogue or acting of any sort, except for a few perfunctory hand gestures. The show uses no sets, props or costumes...
Upon ending the tour, I felt that I might have been a little too dogmatic in my talk of the anti-apartheid struggle. I saw apprehension in the faces of some of these pre-freshmen and their parents. I concluded my tour by telling them the following: I hope that what I told you of the student struggle has not completely distorted your ideas about whether Harvard is the right place for you. Most students with whom I have contact are very happy that they are at Harvard. I am too. But there are a number of aspects of Harvard...