Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...piano intensively for four crucial years," says Albert Kim '98. "Even more painful when I heard someone [say] during my freshman year', You gave up Curtis and Juilliard for here? Are you crazy?" says Albert Kim '99. Crazy enough to be drawn by the Harvard name and "all those glorious things we as pre-frosh believe it will deliver," Kim, who is preparing for a European tour and has definite intentions to study at a conservatory after graduating, proves that the non-conservatory detour can be taken in stride...
...protean variety, his febrile energy (which could have come from his lifelong habit of popping nitroglycerin pills for a dicey heart), his incessant self-celebration and his absolute refusal to believe there was anything finer than to be born an American, unless to die as one in some glorious battle for the flag, the great "Teddy" was as representative of 20th century dynamism as Abraham Lincoln had been of 19th century union and George Washington of 18th century independence...
...infinitely more interesting, one of the most complex and contradictory personalities of the century. His full name, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, was memorably--and literally--translated into English by the novelist G.V. Desani as "Action-Slave Fascination-Moon Grocer," and he was as rich and devious a figure as that glorious name suggests...
...Class of 1999 was the guinea pig of the historic change in housing policy that has served to eliminate the peculiar characters of the residential houses; after the Class of 2001 rises to sophomore status this September, the only vestiges of jock culture in Mather House will be its glorious weight room, and Adams House will be left with nothing more artistic than psychedelic hallways and a pool theater...
...that he can't tell a microwave from a VCR. One day, by mistake, he watches a trashy teenpic called Hotpants College 2 and finds, he thinks, a reason for loving. In an actor named Ronnie Bostock (Jason Priestley), Giles sees all the beauty of the ages in one glorious package. The donnish writer buys fan mags, rents B-minus films, immerses himself in the detritus of Bostockiana. To your eyes Ronnie might seem a bland dreamboat, but that is part of the fun in this delicious comedy. And part of the truth: for it is a mark of obsession...