Word: fingers
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...that there are a lot of things wrong in my country, a lot of hypocrisies, the Vietnam War, all that, you know, that all these things could be corrected if we turned it over to the people, and one of those people is me. And I point my finger at myself: when you see me, I'll be the man in black, one of those responsible. And that kind of became my flag bearer, that song. And I've worn that mantle ever since...
...told students—many of whom have complained that HLS doesn’t encourage public service work—that “if you point the finger of blame at the Law School, you won’t have taken advantage of your opportunities...
...difficult for me to understand why I made the decision to leave high school early in my senior year to enter the Merchant Marine. What I could not understand was why my loving father (since deceased) so readily acquiesced to this plan; he never lifted a finger to try to prevent his promising high school student son from abandoning our shared dream of my going to college. One evening while stoned many years later it came to me, and I now understand what had seemed so inexplicable about his behavior. Would I have eventually figured it out without the subtle...
Player to Watch—Tyler. The sophomore emerged as Harvard’s top tailback in last season’s Columbia game, when he rushed for a freshman-record 120 yards, but missed the last two games with a broken finger. With junior Rodney Byrnes playing receiver full-time this season, Tyler will be counted on to provide much-needed experience to the RB corps...
...that the subject of racial differences be introduced to freshmen in the context of discussion of texts between faculty and students, an exercise rich in questions and short on dogmatic answers. The exercise respects the intelligence of those participating in it. This is what you should expect here: not finger-shaking didacticism, not preaching by the College that there was only one way to think about things, but a genuine intellectual exercise. Harvard was a city set on a hill; if you wanted either to petrify it or to tear it down, you were in the wrong place...