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...document that ratifies the conventions of the Victorian novel. In the first volume of his autobiography, God Stand Up for Bastards (1973), Leitch recalled his adoptive parents and the mysterious couple who secretly and illegally relinquished their nine-day-old infant. "This title might seem like a calculated insult to my mother," he began. "In a way it is. But I have a sneaking hunch--and hope--that hard words may entice her out of the shadows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Victoriana Family Secrets: a Writer's Search for His Parents and | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...trample upon. So it is that Harvard is left with ugly, meaningless piles of wood, feeble echoes of other schools' shantytowns, that fail to address the root problems SASC claims to be concerned about--instead of working toward the improvement of rights for South African Blacks, SASC members insult the rights of their fellow students. Christopher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Shanties | 4/26/1986 | See Source »

Seelinger began to violently insult the women and threatened to have them arrested, Spire told the Sun. Reacting to a yelled insult, the Cornell junior got out of his car and allegedly hit Spire across the chest when she tried to block him from hitting another woman...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Women's Rights Protests Spark Violence | 4/26/1986 | See Source »

Unfortunately, the scale and character of protest deterred Meese from any kind of public appearance and will be construed by Reagan Administration officials and others as a direct insult to Meese. Right or wrong, the whole affair has put the K-School in the role of administration-basher with no graceful "out" available for Dean Graham T. Allison '62 or anyone else...

Author: By Paul W. Green, | Title: A Bad Attitude | 4/16/1986 | See Source »

Every time Harvard-affiliated groups insult prominent Americans they detract from the University's ability to influence the political evolution of the United States. Maybe Meese, like his boss, should simply snub Harvard and refuse to come on May 20th. He would then join in the slow but sure removal of Harvard from the crucial political debates of our time...

Author: By Paul W. Green, | Title: Mindlessly Besotted | 4/8/1986 | See Source »

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