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Accurate Jumps. The use of many voices also provides great breadth. Sally Rand gives some flavor of the times, and herself, when she notes: "Friends of mine who had been to Harvard, Yale and Princeton jumped out of windows. With accuracy." The insularity of the rich sometimes speaks in the person of a psychiatrist. The most wonderful kind of servants could be had for a pittance, he recalls. "That's when people were peddling apples and breadlines were forming. But on the whole, don't forget, the highest unemployment was less than 20%." A Chicago M.D. with many...
...economic, and cultural backgrounds. But in fact we should have more third-world students. We should have more sons of alumni. We should have more lower-middle-class and lower-class economic representation. There are many special groups and constituencies within the Harvard undergraduate body. The New England college flavor, which lends a cultural distinctiveness to what otherwise might be a homogenized University of the United States, requires significant enrollment of New Englanders of all flavors and background.... Finally, there is a desire to have Harvard participate more fully in the minority racial cultures of this country...
...they must have known it could not last. Surely! For one thing, there was the war. Pearl Harbor was little more than two months after they registered Freshman year. But even before that, war was the undercurrent which gave their Harvard days a different flavor-however minor-from that of their older brothers and fathers. Harvard President James Bryant Conant and the CRIMSON both came out in favor of an immediate declaration of war first thing in September. The CRIMSON's previous policy had been to advocate "anything short of war" to aid the allies, but it said that...
There has been a shift in Americans' tastes, in the direction of "lighter" drinks. The terms are vague, but light usually connotes lower proof, a less pronounced taste and lighter color, while heavy whiskies have a definite flavor, more aftertaste and more caramel color. Scotch blenders, capitalizing on their whisky's carefully nurtured reputation for lightness, have in recent years pitched their promotions to the status conscious,* the young and the increasing number of women drinkers...
...aged." If old casks were used, the whisky had to bear the label "Stored in used cooperage"-a line not likely to boost sales. By contrast, the light grain whisky used in Scotch is distilled at 190 proof. Scotch is also ripened in used barrels, which impart no charred flavor to the whisky's light body. But finally, in 1968, the distillers won federal approval to mature a new high-proof whisky in used kegs and label it "aged...