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...says Arthur D. Trottenberg '48, associate dean of the Faculty for development, the University has received more than $81 million in advance pledges and donations; and, despite an unstable economy, Melissa Gerrity, acting associate dean of the Faculty for finance and administration, says she "hasn't heard terrible gloom and doom yet." One reason for the early success of the drive may be that Harvard Campaign officials have aimed the late 1979-early 1980 Cupid's arrows at wealthy foundations and companies, many of which can always afford a plaque on a building at one of the most prestigious universities...
...length and awfulness, and for the way in which it bears out his view of the world, but he does not look forward to it. Not looking forward to winter is his philosophy. But that is too simple. A flatlander who finds one of us sunk in gloom at the beginning of July, fossilized by dread of winter, may think that he has understood the New Hampshire soul. This is not likely. What the tourist is almost certain to miss is that the New Hampshireman may not be wrestling with the prospect of the winter immediately ahead...
...peace comes only when he finds his way home to the Flower-Fruit Mountain. Equally funny is an other bit of pantomime, The Three-Forked Crossroad. In a case of mistaken identities at a country inn, two men simulate a sword fight in the dark. Squinting through the supposed gloom, they swipe at one another, only rarely touching in this intricate game of peek and duck...
...peculiar situation now. We've been waiting for years and years for a breakthrough in the Arab world. I used to dream that if this would happen, we'd be dancing the hora in the streets of Tel Aviv. And yet there's a mood of gloom in Israel. Either the peace is a failure, and I don't think it is, or someone has failed to project the peace the way it should be. And who is it but a leader who is to project...
...city filled out, Harvard and other university expansion became an issue, more for anguished protest than substantive reform. And now the city faces tough fights to preserve its neighborhoods in the face of condominium growth and its government in the face of tax cuts. History help ease the gloom, though. As one city official says, "From 1630 on, we've been in some kind of trouble and we're still here. That must mean something...