Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Skakel household. There were servants, a swimming pool, riding horses, a 35-ft. yawl and another smaller sailboat (significantly named, by Ethel, Sink or Swim). The house was always crammed with the children's schoolmates and other visitors, and it was not unusual for 25 people to gather at the Skakels' dinner table...
When Tim decided to pack up, I expected that I would finally see these five people totally relaxed. I was wrong. As we started to pack up the lights in the big trunks, gather the camera and recording equipment together, and clean up the place, a pall fell over the cabin. No one spoke, except to ask Eric questions about the storage of the apparatus. There was no sense of relief in the air--even though all the interior shooting, at least, had been completed...
Open discussions, chaired by Richard E. Hyland '69-3, lasted all afternoon. By 3 p.m. groups were organized to go to all the Harvard Houses and Radcliffe dorms to gather more people. A rally back at University Hall was tentatively planned...
...reads like a combination for an IBM ad in the CRIMSON and Reader's Digest's "From the Campus" section, all the better. They're not going to know it in Des Moines and they're not going to buy it anywhere else. The three Harvard graduates who will gather in the sheckles from this adventure into Madison Avenue conjure up one Ivy stereotype after another, blow on it with their windy wit, and leave it. In the face of unsubtle attempts to infuse rewrites of admissions booklets with local color--paint it whitewash--all of the eight Ivy League...
...seeking to hand down our own foregone conclusions because we have none. We want to discuss and act upon the issues that have been raised with Harvard students, and to gather ideas and insights into the problems and meanings of our lives. Together we can create an atmosphere conducive to individual responsiveness...