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...result of its limitations, the Gazette can get tedious, and Lord is the first to admit it. She still giggles over a Lampoon parody of her paper: "page after page, a boring list of names--'The Gazette Announces...'it was excellent." Yet she expresses a good deal of pride in the publication as well: "We view ourselves as a very proper, mellifluous Bostonian: sensationalism is not our thing." The perfect University PR people are "writers who love Harvard, who love the written word, and love to do features," she says. Under Lord's direction, the Gazette has spruced...
...Lord does far more than merely supervise in-house news releases. Before coming to Harvard in 1953 to write fund-raising copy, she worked for Time, Life, and Madamoiselle. She "still keeps her hand in it" every now and then with a free-lance piece, and then there's her column in the Herald American. Every week, Lord and her daughter, Mary, comment on a current issue, emphasizing the perspectives of different generations and the relationship between mother and daughter. "It's always loads of fun because we both love to write," the elder Lord says...
...page-three feature, which appears every Friday, began with a tragedy. While working in Washington after graduating from Radcliffe, Mary Lord was attacked and subsequently hospitalized. Deane took time off to be with her daughter, and while on a therapeutic trip to the Bahamas, they began talking in earnest about their different views of the world. They wrote down some of their thoughts and forgot about the whole business. A year later, though, Deane's friend, New York Daily News columnist Jimmy Breslin suggested the Lord duo try to market the results of their tete a tetes. Today, the column...
...Lord and her daughter frequently address the plight of women in America, and discuss the changing nature of American society. Deane usually takes a more reserved stance, defending the hard-working wife-mother and encouraging readers to respect women, regardless of their career achievements. She relies on a folksy style and low-key sense of humor to convey her theme. In a recent discussion prompted by the air traffic controllers' strike, she concluded...
...this outlook, not surprisingly, surfaces in Lord's assessment of her own career. She frequently refers to her attempts at juggling marriage, children, and a career. In a piece on Sandra Day O'Connor, President Reagan's choice for the first female Supreme Court Justice, Lord commiserated with the jurist, writing. "I can guess at the hard choices that Judge O'Connor must have made to succeed...