Word: lookingness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The entrance to Harvard Yard asks students to "Enter to Grow in Wisdom," but Debt, rather than Wisdom, might be a more appropriate admonition. In April the Class of '83 received its elegant invitations to attend Harvard and those who accepted took on a financial burden that soon will total...
Looking back on the sports year that has just concluded, it is hard to retain much enthusiasm over the successes that dotted the 1978-79 season. Overall, this was a gloomy year for the Crimson charges, a year that saw Harvard invincibles proven mortal and Cambridge hopes cast aside.
Kilbridge agrees that criticism of Harvard's program comes from backward-looking city-planners. "We're not terribly impressed with the APA," he says.
Humor is his usual vehicle, but he can also write with a haunting strain of melancholy, with delight or, as in his 1974 meditation on inflation-pinched old people shopping timidly at the supermarket, with shame and outrage: "Staring at 90-cent peanut butter. Taking down an orange, looking for...
Baker's first column lampooned a J.F.K. press conference ("Q. Mr. President, can you tell us what you have done with Chester Bowles? ... A. The State Department is looking into this matter and we are expecting a report"). The attempt worked, partly because it shocked people; it was still a...