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...Giving significantly less emphasis to Lamont's "browsing collections." De Gennaro said that since book-stores are now widely used for browsing, "such `gentlemen's libraries' are totally obsolete...

Author: By Matthew A. Light, | Title: Harvard to Evaluate Its Library Complex | 12/6/1990 | See Source »

...Those nice little gentlemen at the Lampoontook it upon themselves to put an axe to thattree," Kelley said...

Author: By Gady A. Epstein, | Title: Lampoon Tree Felled; Vellucci Slams Butchery | 12/6/1990 | See Source »

...asking, gentlemen and lady, is that you make me president of Harvard. It'll be good for you, it'll be good for me, and it'll be good for Harvard: when people from all over the world come to me with their problems, it will be a Harvard ring that they'll kiss...

Author: By Brian D. Reich, | Title: New York State of Mind | 11/13/1990 | See Source »

...Close by, in a marble-pillared courtroom hidden behind security gates, two men stood before a civil court judge and began a legal duel that involved an unusual amalgam of crimes and punishments: charges of murder and racism, to be measured by the strictures of tort liability. "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury," intoned civil rights crusader Morris Dees, "we're going to ask you to return a verdict so big that it will put Tom Metzger out of business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Making War on WAR | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

...Preferentials," groups of students who want to join the same club. The Preferentials go everywhere together--to meals, to tour the various clubs--but for the most part just wait for the upper-class club members to visit them and ask trite questions meant to discriminate between the gentlemen and the well-not-our-kinds...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Ceremonies of Exclusivity, Timeless Literary Questions | 9/21/1990 | See Source »

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