Word: haven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Dorothy Parker remarried her ex-husband Alan Campbell in 1950, she looked around during the reception and said, "People who haven't talked to each other in years are on speaking terms again today, including the bride and groom." A corrosive reviewer, Parker once slated a hapless author as a "writer for the ages. For the ages of four to eight." She could be equally cruel to her nearest and dearest. When Alexander Woollcott, a fellow jouster at the Algonquin Round Table, recalled an afternoon of book signing with the smug rhetorical question "What is so rare...
...There haven't been any really violent acts, but there is most definitely a racist attitude on campus," says David G. Latimore '88, director of Harvard's Afro-American Cultural Center...
...tension is not as great [at Harvard]. There haven't been the incidents like at the University of Massachusetts or at Dartmouth," says Kenneth W. Johnson '87. But "there is still quite a bit of racism," he adds...
...think [the streakis great," senior Will Iselin said. "But nobody looks at it as one of our goals. Our goal is to finish as strong as we can. We haven't always had the best overall team. But we worked the hardest...
...haven't always felt this way about Harvard. Around the end of my junior year a few things became clear to me, however, making me doubt that I in fact had found my own little plot of heaven...