Word: kappa
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...Brilliance Through Osmosis. All three of my roommates were inducted into Phi Beta Kappa last week. Could this mean that someday I'll get smart...
...fact, when it comes to promoting TIME, few of us can match Cleary's zeal. "It might sound corny, but working for TIME was always on my wish list," she says. Nevertheless, she began her career in a roundabout way. A Phi Beta Kappa at Connecticut College, she graduated in 1975 and spent a year in Japan as a Fulbright fellow, then worked at the Bank of Toyko as a liaison and operations manager. In 1978 she got her wish, when she was hired as an assistant marketing manager, preparing material for sales presentations, at TIME in New York City...
Three years ago, depressed first-year students who were randomized into Lowell House sang a song called "Lowell's Bells"--to the tune of AC/DC's "Hell's Bells"--to voice their displeasure at their new home. Those were the days of the Phi Beta Kappa quads and a house library open so many hours that it gave Store 24 a run for its money. In those days at Lowell House, every night was a Tuesday night...
Looking back, Seidman believes that probably the most important influence on his life was World War II. Fresh out of Dartmouth with his Phi Beta Kappa key in hand, he joined the Navy in 1943 and was assigned to a squadron of nine destroyers in the South Pacific; only two of the nine survived. "I thought I was really blessed to be alive when so many of my friends didn't come back," says Seidman. "The odds were pretty good that I wasn't coming back, so I thought I'd better enjoy myself and still do something for whoever...
...radio, dinner at the country club once a week, a trip to Paris once a lifetime. Dad wears vests, Mom wears funny hats, the maid nips at the cooking sherry (must speak to her about that). If their son makes eagle scout and one of his sisters pledges Kappa, does it really matter that the other daughter decamps for Greenwich Village and a scattershot involvement with "the arts" that her parents will never understand...