Word: friends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...temerity to ask for a private bedroom, I vented my displeasure on that closet-sized space at the end of the year. Despite destroying the walls and the door with a scuba knife--don't ask--I still was never charged for the damage, thanks to a quick-thinking friend who distracted the super when he was inspecting the rooms. To my knowledge, Canaday D-33 still bears the scars of my sojourn there...
...year after I wrote that piece, I got to read a virtual rewrite of that essay, now entitled "They Flee from Me," in a Lampoon parody of the What. To add insult to injury, a good friend of mind unwittingly complimented me for writing the Lampoon's parody, saying it was the best piece I had ever written. One freshman girl even took the parody so seriously she called me up to complain about...
...Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison '62, a close friend of Dukakis, explains, "His years at the Kennedy School were a very important time in his life. Being defeated was a crushing experience. He was a little shellshocked...
...longtime friend and colleague described a more personal side of Loury, saying he is "immature" and rash and intensely leader of the Black community. The friend added that Loury had "a self-destructive personality" which sometimes led him to seek risk and excitement in defiance of social norms...
...wanted to be the great Black leader, a kindof messiah," Alexis said. "But Jesse Jackson wasway out in front of the traditional civil rightmovement," so Loury turned to a conservativephilosophy, added Alexis, who said he was alongtime friend of Loury...