Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...AGAIN reminded of this difference, however, at the non-exclusive SCR meals. At North House and to a lesser extent at a couple other houses, the meals are open to all students and publicized. Yet only a handful of students attend...
...qualifies? In most cases, heredity and genealogy are of little help, Kennedys and Rockefellers excepted. So a few rules of thumb suggest themselves. A seat-for-life for an Oscar, two PEOPLE magazine covers or 100 minutes (lifetime) spent with Merv Griffin. Lesser folk, with only a guest appearance or two on Miami Vice, may serve on committees...
...course, there are balancing sins. Some of the more conservative characters seem awfully stiff beyond their years, such as the former radical-gone-establishment lawyer McComas (Jamie Mclnnes) and, to a lesser extent, the authoress' husband Mr. Crampton (Richard Listerud). But theirs are mostly minor errors in otherwise fairly solid performances, allowing them to play the straight man to the ridiculousness around them...
...many people, of course, Harvard stands for the proposition that "intellectual activity" (read: the kinds of things that get you accepted at Harvard University) is superior to "physical activity" (read: the kinds of things people at "lesser" institutions do). If Harvard is based upon this proposition, as Kurzman suggests, it shouldn't be. There are already too many hierarchies at this school separating people into inferior and superior categories. Wouldn't it be simpler and more human to say that good piccolo players and Scott Fusco should excel at what they do and leave it at that...
...Lori E. Lesser...