Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...funds, identify potential supporters and get out the vote on Election Day. Carefully built up over the course of several congressional and presidential campaigns, the list now contains tens of millions of voter names, along with each one's age, address, telephone number, party enrollment, ethnic origin and income level. Not to be out- teched, the Democrats have launched their own computer initiative, an ambitious effort to identify some 16 million swing voters who might be persuaded to switch allegiance at the last minute...
...bestselling author to make these people his topic--for the reader, his execution is superb. Wolfe's journalistic style translates exceptionally well to the novelistic form. The story itself is punctuated with staccato syllables and stream of consciousness musings. Wolfe communicates with the reader on a sensory level that subsumes traditional language. The chapter called "The King of the Jungle," begins with this onomonopaeic passage...
...form of communication is better than stonewalling and not talking at all," says Richard Eisert '88. But he adds, "Things at Harvard, especially on this level, happen very slowly...
Tonight, the Crimson opens against youthful Penn. The Quakers start three freshman, and spent the early part of this year seasoning the youngsters against top-level competition such as Georgia Tech, Notre Dame, and Indiana...
...Axelrod says he has performed with a number of different musicians and has "had to ask a few players to leave." Although the members of a band are like brothers, sometimes members are unable to either make the full time commitment or "cut it musically," Axelrod says. "A certain level of professionalism must be kept," he says. Axelrod finally hit on a winning combination with two undergraduates at the Berkelee School of Music--saxophonist Warren Hill and Percussionist David Schommer...