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This apocryphal story took place during my grandfather??s sophomore year at Harvard. His name was Robert A. Riesman Sr., and he graduated from Harvard College in the Class...
Stacey R. Borden: Her beloved grandfather??s shirt...
...attitude is so inexplicable that it undermines any possibility of creating a sympathetic character. Despite the fact that Marcus leaves the drug life to make a new start in the rap world, he shows absolutely no remorse for his lifestyle. In one scene he essentially tells his grandfather??the same man who selflessly took him in after his mother died—to F-off when he questions his choices: “I’m a gangsta, grandpa, and I’m proud of it!” This refrain?...
Marines are, more often than not, known for their martial prowess as opposed to their eloquence, but I have yet to hear as excellent and pithy a summation of a man as I did on the day of my grandfather??s funeral. Several of his children, grandchildren, and the parish priest had already spoken, offering sincere yet unremarkable praise of his conduct in this world and his fate in the next. The final speaker was a friend of my grandfather??s who had also served in the pacific theater during the Second World War. The marine...
...said Walder. “He wanted the freedom to teach what he wanted and write what he wanted. He didn’t want to play the game of University politics.” He added that Moore, who was independently wealthy and lived largely off his grandfather??s trust fund, did not need the financial incentives tied with tenure. Another theory as to why Moore never became tenured, according to Walder, was because of his fundamental disagreements with Talcott Parsons, the monumental Harvard sociologist who taught at the University from 1927 to 1973. Moore...