Word: funning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Calling this tournament "more of a fun, social thing," rather than a win for the season record, Felske voiced optimism about continuing the Harvard-hosted tournament. Felske said he felt the tournament offered a beneficial opportunity for the men's and women's programs to work together...
...great power if we keep going as we are," Schlesinger says. "The Soviet Union's intentions are not benign. So many people grew up after the Berlin crisis. They would not accept the true face of Communism in Hanoi and elsewhere. It used to be so much fun to discover our own moral defects. It is not so much fun any longer. These people labored under the notion that if we were sufficiently lovable, others would be drawn to us. Our young had so much security in the postwar world that they felt it was the order of nature...
Larsen was an enthusiast, with a superb improvisational talent, what he called "the amateur spirit." He defined it as the "sense of wonder, adventure and fun" that animated TIME from the start. He was endlessly accessible-the unphoniest man I ever met," recalls PEOPLE Magazine Publisher Richard Durrell. He liked and admired those who came to work for TIME; he treated them to an abundance of his intelligent attention and personal warmth. He was also an exceptionally alert recruiter of new talent. Remembers Heiskell: "He was terribly proud of bringing up people, making them into something." Among his discoveries were...
...also thinking about my sins, asking forgiveness for going to the Hong Kong twice a week, for buying LaCoste shirts, for taking Nat Sci 150, and for harboring evil thoughts about the Red Sox. But it's not all that bad. I've resisted the temptation to make fun of pre-meds, I've lived through three years at Harvard without starching my collars or buying tortoise-shell glasses, and I've avoided taking "Boats" or "Gas Stations...
Analyzing x-ray photographs of exploding galaxies, looking for double quasars, searching for organic molecules in the far reaches of interstellar space--that's the fun part of what goes on at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics...