Word: fittingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...former speechwriters, in a desperate revisionist effort even sought to excuse one of Agnew's racist comments ("What's the matter with that fat Jap?", directed towards a dozing Japanese-American journalist). Agnew's onetime campaign press secretary, Victor Gold, declared in what must have been a fit of hysteria that "Spiro Agnew was the John the Baptist for [the Reagan] revolution...
Those words come from a man with a knack for adjusting his philosophy to fit the political circumstances of the moment. From the time he was elected student-body president at Northwestern University in 1961, on the highly pliable platform of "creative long-term leadership," Gephardt's ideology of choice has been pragmatism. Starting out as an antiabortion moderate who knocked off a union-backed incumbent to win his House seat in 1976, Gephardt evolved into a pro-choice liberal whom labor considers its most reliable friend in Congress. Not even his admirers are sure they know what...
...many ways, we Harvardians fit Grunwald's description. The Independent survey of late last year found that Harvard is overwhelmingly middle and upper-middle, if not upper, class. We are disproportionately educated in private schools and grew up in or near major cities. And, although the Independent didn't check out this statistic, it is also true that most of us wear clothes from...
...quick, but essential, tangent: I, too, fit the mold. In my blue jeans and monochrome sweater that wasn't even light blue, I blended into the crowd just as well as everyone else. I don't exclude myself from this critique. Quite the contrary: I am writing out of concern and discouragement about myself and my friends and this campus that belongs...
...this post-randomization era) friends like that are important. But sameness gets boring and stagnates quickly. In our dining halls (if not in our third-place classrooms) we have the unique opportunity for the most incredible learning of our lifetimes as we explore together in search of a fit for all the peculiarities of our size and self--small, medium, large and otherwise...