Word: gately
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...communes, trying to reconcile that China to the one that young élites live in today is disorienting. When I first visited China in 1981, I went to the People's Park in Shanghai with two traveling companions. Our obligatory Foreign Ministry "guide" ushered us through a special gate reserved for "foreign friends." A knot of young Chinese had gathered outside. As we passed, a few made loud comments about the unfairness of having parts of the People's Park reserved only for foreigners. One of my companions, a Mandarin speaker, agreed volubly in Chinese. Immediately a group of young...
...start of the concert, several hundred people had gathered in the New Yard, waiting for the bands to take the porch of Memorial Church, where the crazy light tornado—the one that hangs near Johnson Gate around Christmastime—was suspended between two of the venerable old church’s massive columns. Harry Potter-themed t-shirts, many of them custom made, were everywhere: “You Can’t Stop Hufflepuff,” “I See Thestrals” and “Harry Potter Can Ride My Broomstick?...
...while the Montoneros were out blowing up buildings and laying the groundwork for Latin America’s bloodiest military dictatorship, the “radicals” in the U.S. were protesting the Vietnam War on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and embracing free love in Golden Gate State Park...
Reva P. Minkoff ’08, a Crimson editorial editor and former Crimson Staff Director, is a government concentrator in Pforzheimer House. She is working for Google this summer in a building about two miles away from the main gate of Moffett Field...
...talked. Yuan's daughter came out to play. Some workers arrived to install an extra bed. Then we left with all the usual polite exchanges. Understandably, Yuan didn't step over the lintel to see us out, as usually happens in China. On our way to the front gate, we passed the policeman, who had found himself a folding chair and was slumped in it, Buddha belly bulging. He waved to us and called out a cheery...