Word: lifeness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...affects undergraduates most directly in the many programs and services it sponsors, among them the Radcliffe Forum, which hosts lectures and seminars all year; the Radcliffe/Harvard Women's Center, which publishes Seventh Sister; and the Radcliffe Alumnae Career Services, which offers job-hunting advice and resources for alumnae for life...
Freshman Week is like a bad simile--self-conscious, strained, shallow, you want to say everything, but end up conveying only your desperation. You enter Harvard Yard and think, "Well, this is the beginning of a new chapter in my life," and then try to write it without understanding the setting, the characters or the tone. But if that's too abstract, let's put it another way--you're like a large, black dog in a sea of blind porpoises. No, a jellybean nestled in the center of a goose-liver pate...
...steps and kept his eye open for a mob of black ghouls to come prowling out of the darkness with whips and chains. He waited half an hour. An hour. An hour and a half. And then he kicked at the asphalt as he had been doing all his life and retreated to his room...
Only six square miles in sizes, Cambridge is easy to become familiar with. The Charles River is one boundary, the Somerville town line the other, and in between the layout is fairly simple. Commerical life is concentrated in the four squares that dot Massachusetts Avenue, the main artery running the length of the city...
...Rona's Radcliffe as a clean, bright stereotype--Jewish-American Princess Emily, WASPy golden girl Daphne, good-timing Southern gal Annabel, and studious but passionate Chris. Jaffe drags them through a mire of messy divorces, deformed kids, homosexual husbands, and personal failures. You begin to hope each traumatic life crisis will be the final quagmire, putting the poor girl out of her misery. But of course they all surface at the 20th reunion...