Word: handbooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...selling experience during the summer of 1979 was extremely rewarding. I was sent with the Harvard group to Los Angeles, (hardly the "Bible Belt") where I sold educational books (the two-volume Webster's Student Handbook Set) door-to-door to middle-class families. The job was very intense: long hours on foot, six days a week. By the end of the summer, however. I had not only met more interesting people than I could hope to count, but had also made more than twice the average earnings of a first-year salesman...
Once again, the Spartacus Youth League (SYL), a socialist youth group, is the target of administrative harassment at Harvard. Last spring the administration forcibly evicted the SYL from its campus office. According to the Official Rules Handbook, authorized student organizations are allowed office space. Yet the Friends of the Spartacus Youth League was locked out of its office and had its literature seized. We were replaced by none other than the infamous Harvard Delivery News Service (one of whose directors has allegedly absconded with thousands of dollars in funds). Then last semester, after having been evicted for this alleged thief...
...some things, of course, which are not secret, and which the College makes no effort to protect. Harvard calls these facts--mostly the sort of thing you might read in a yearbook biography--"directory information," and will release it to anyone. (A complete list is included in the student handbook.) Students especially partial to privacy can arrange to have even "directory information" withheld by writing to the access officer in the Registrar's Office by the May before the year in which they desire complete privacy...
...assignment for Hustler magazine. Sullivan, who had previously spent a year in Rio de Janeiro, checked into the Sheraton six days before the slayings in the dining room. He left his room the next day, leaving behind his camera, tape recorder, typewriter, a Spanish dictionary and a well-worn handbook on South America. The tall, bearded newsman never returned to his room and has not been heard from...
...aimed at a visual sort of lyricism, and in these fight scenes he achieves it, weaving images and sound (terrific thumping, a bull lowing, a bull breathing, with crowd noises entering and leaving according to the intensity of the action). Scorsese uses every camera effect in the director's handbook--slow motion, freeze-frame, subjective camera, aerial shots, close-up, blurs--and the miracle is, it works. Clearly, this is not boxing as it really is, but boxing as the movies saw it; indeed, the fights are choreographed just like the corny old boxing movies like Golden Boy. This...