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...Harvard's vaunted safety nets and counseling resources are no better than the people who staff them. My proctor, Carla, was a former Eliot House crew and gov jock establishing her professional credentials at the Law School. She was nice, her live-in boyfriend was nice, her study breaks were nice. Whenever you talked to her about your problems, she would tell you how rowing helped her when she was depressed. A great help...
...whites are rich or even well off--in fact thousands are unemployed --but a comfortable style still seems to be the norm. The presence of servants is an important part of the lives of whites. Most middle-class families employ at least one live-in maid, and, with monthly wages running around $60, many have a cook or gardener as well. The thought of doing without household help seems to panic the whites almost as much as the slogan "One Man, One Vote." The young wife of a lawyer in Johannesburg, who is also the mother of two small children...
...wide a world as an adolescent could handle. Avant-garde art, radical politics and a blend of bourgeois habits and bohemian attitudes encouraged theatrical poses. Simon's favorite getup is a long gray raincoat, a gold borsalino hat and black stockings. At 15 she is a live-in helper for a Greenwich Village dermatologist and his family. The Bergsons appreciate culture with a capital K, and the baby-sitter, already an amateur anthropologist, enjoys watching their games. Available evidence suggests that the doctor was a pretentious cad and an ideal target for Simon's elegantly decapitating style...
...Woody Allen) and now to Elliot (Michael Caine). Eventually, each sister has an affair with one of Hannah's men. Elliot begins the roundelay by lurching into a mad pash for the beautiful, cheerful, lost Lee. Perhaps he is weary of Hannah's competence; she is a kind of live-in social worker for her sweet, nerdy husband. Lee, for her part, is tired of baby-sitting her European boyfriend (Max Von Sydow) and is ready to find another professorial loser to whom she can teach the facts of love. Meanwhile, Holly flounces desperately among Mr. Wrongs until she finds...
Years ago, many Harvard students had their own live-in maids and would rarely get their hands dirty. Those days, however, are long gone as Kirkland House residents, for the first time in the history of the University, must now take out their own trash...