Word: lerner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Many editorialists agreed with the Tulsa World, which wrote: "We can honestly feel for the Senator in his time of terrible anguish, but our Presidents must be elected for their reliable strengths, not out of sympathy for their misfortunes." The essence, said the New York Post's Max Lerner, was that "at a crisis moment in his life, when another human life was at stake, Senator Kennedy was either thrown into confusion or stunned into insensitivity and inaction...
...Lerner takes his readers along as Carol--a summie--and Tim--a Harvard student whom veteran observers recognize as a local movie impressario--wend their way from the Blue Parrot to Tim's Dana St. apartment and a happening on the Charles. Carol sends her circle pin skimming into the river...
...studious looking Radcliffe girls with round, horn-rimmed glasses are replaced by 4-H Club cheerleaders from Miame U., and the all too serious self-involved Harvard student gives way to tackles and student body presidents from the Big Ten Colleges. Even the Revolution takes a break," writes Steve Lerner (Harvard '68), the author of the article...
However, all is not lost, Lerner goes on to say. A winter-time Harvard student in Cambridge fro the summer can always set himself up "as the unofficial guru of the poor underprivileged culturally deprived Summer School girl. In this capacity the Harvard student not only gives guided tours of Cambridge night life, but also becomes chief propagandist for and informal teacher of the Harvard life style...
...Lerner's account of the visit to the 'Snooze' is good. It should be. He served as Executive Editor of the CRIMSON during 1967-68, and is now a writer for the village voice...