Word: harrowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Most jobs are through connections," says Sean P. O'Harrow '90, a receptionist at the SEO. "For instance, I got a job once as a research assistant in the Architecture Department as a result of an announcement made in the department." O'Harrow says that it is not unusual for departments to hand out jobs to student concentrators...
...attended St. Cyprian's with George Orwell and Cyril Connolly and made his way into Harrow with honors by some inventive cheating on tests. At Cambridge, he was too concerned with applause to bother about academics. In his senior year, Vickers notes, Beaton was cast in drag for a student revue. "He began to practise high kicks for his show and found himself incapable of preparing for his exam: 'I've done absolutely no work!' Then he went to London to buy bright peppermint pink chiffon for his dress...
...looks and air of thoughtful intensity, his blend of Western rationalism and passionate nationalism, Nehru was an ideal-and idealistic-leader of the new India. He was cosmopolitan, commanding, charismatic. His interest in civil rights had been quickened by his friend and mentor Gandhi, his intellectual theories refined at Harrow and Cambridge. As Prime Minister, he ambitiously embarked upon a path of democratic socialism, hoping to bring industry, literacy and, above all, modernity to an India that was in many areas poverty stricken and backward. Abroad, as his own Foreign Minister, he pursued a policy of fierce anticolonialism...
Peter Bishop Harrow, England...
...Among human institutions, the family is the closest relative that the drama has. It is theater in miniform, compacted of love, hate, sibling rivalry, alienation and reconciliation. In capsule form, that describes this play. Playwright Hayes puts two sisters in a room with their dying mother and the pair harrow up the past and the present with bitter intensity and acridly funny put-down humor...