Word: jedidiah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beautiful New Haven, Connecticut, ranked number one by Money Magazine as the most dangerous place in America to bring actual currency. The atmosphere in New Haven--which Joseph Conrad attempted to capture in his famous work Heart of Darkness--is fertile ground for the development of young intellects. Jedidiah S. Purdy '97 attended Harvard, but not until arriving at Yale Law School did he recognize that Seinfeld was a show built around an ironic sensibility. Purdy wrote a book about this observation, which made quite a stir at Yale where most people have had their televisions stolen...
...truism of the psychologizing age that a book tells us as much about its author as about its subject. And the authentic power of For Common Things resides not in the originality of Purdy's thesis but rather in the not-at-all-incidental portrait of Jedidiah Purdy. The book is filled with autobiographical detail, and with confessions that spring from a mind uninterested in artifice and concealment: it is the example of Purdy's love of common things, rather than his sometimes boring case studies in the downfall of public culture, that proves effective...
...Jedidiah S. Cohen '99, who transferred thissemester from Currier to Adams House with a"floating" group with roommates who are away forthe semester...
While other 15-year-olds were juggling soccer practice and chemistry homework, Jedidiah S. Cohen '99 was starring in a Broadway musical...
...conflict between good and evil, neutrality is morally indefensible." Since when has this been true? While it is important to stand up for justice, neutrality in the sense of pacifism has always been morally defensible, as taught by great moral leaders, including Jesus, Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi. JEDIDIAH J. PALOSAARI Pasadena, California...