Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard was really exciting to me, because I'd never been to New England before--and I'd been to New York only once. So this was a great chance to travel to places like Brown--that's in Rhode Island, right?--and improve my knowledge of geography (laugh...
...lunch was scattered all over the floor, and The Harvard Crimson was, without knowing it, cheering at me through a Beatles song. I could stay pissed off, or I could laugh...
Many recent graduates continue to frequentCambridge, coming to undergraduate parties, datingundergraduates, and trying to hold on to thequickly receding pleasures of their Harvard youth.I used to laugh at these hangers-on, but I nowunderstand their weakness. Like them, I came herea naive youth, only to be stripped of myself-confidence, and thrown into an adult worldthat is infinitely more complex and subtle thanthe one I left. I suspect that those who do nothave this fear of leaving college have yet toreach that moment of self-knowledge, thatrealization that life is neither as wonderful oras simple as it seems...
...graduates] laugh, and they come in" to the store, said Martha A. Fallon, manager of The Harvard Shop, describing the special class shirt which reads "this shirt cost my family $63,721." By comparison, the shirt costs the graduate next to nothing, selling for a mere...
...writes, "Your father, think of it, Bayard, was rebuilding slums. There was to be warmth and light, Shakespeare and the beat of African drums . . . Your mother wrapped in a slave's headcloth above a bastard dashiki. French champagne with grits. See the good of it before you laugh...