Word: karens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beryl, as everyone called her, spent money when she had it and ran up bills when she did not. In important matters, which meant clothes and horses, she went first-class. She had women friends -- Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) was an early protector -- but she liked men better. Her maternal instinct was fitful at best, and her appetite for casual sex made uproarious disarray of her marriages. Blixen once wrote of her own husband Bror (who became Beryl's occasional bedmate) that "he looked down benevolently and lasciviously upon womankind and had been raised to believe that the entire world...
...particular, I am ashamed and embarrassed at the "Undergraduate English Oration," written and delivered by Karen Fingerman '87. This speech, supposedly an example of the finest eloquence Harvard and Radcliffe can muster, was delivered in an undistinguished style, riddled with the moronic cliches Harvard students have tried to live down for years, and written with the wit and grace I might expect from a not very intelligent ninth grader in a remedial composition course. To judge from the comments of my friends and the reaction of the audience, I surmise I was not alone in finding this speech insulting...
Concerns about legality have led more families to hire American au pairs -- frequently teenage girls from the Midwest and often Mormons. "We Mormons come from big families, so we have experience with kids," explains Karen Howell, 19, a Californian who is spending a year with a Washington, D.C., family. "We don't drink, and we know the meaning of hard work." Two agencies -- the Experiment in International Living and the American Institute for Foreign Study -- have Government permission to bring in 3,100 European au pairs a year on cultural-exchange visas. Although the programs are more expensive than traditional...
...wound up a 17-month undercover probe into the awarding of city contracts, a subpoena was served on the mayor ordering him to hand over two pairs of alligator shoes supposedly given to him by a contractor. Investigators also disclosed that they are seeking evidence that former City Employee Karen Johnson, who went to prison for refusing to testify about allegations of drug use in the city government, had received hush money from two city contractors...
...students, and everyone respects them for their achievements in both areas. There is no reason to think that "Radcliffe," in any area, represents anything less than "Excellence," or, for that matter, "Harvard," This statement does no spring from any wild sentiment of radical feminism, but from one of pride. Karen Weltchek...