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After Eliot’s forty year term—the longest in Harvard’s history—A. Lawrence Lowell, class of 1877, would take the reins. While Lowell broke with the past in his love of the macho sport of football, he despised organized cheering. In a 1911 Crimson article, Lowell described the practice as “barren, poor, and meagre,” and “with less modulation, less means of expressing degrees and varieties of emotion of any kind than any other form of expression—with the possible exception...
Being the woman President in a country known for the macho style of its politics has been a special burden for Corazon Aquino. One of the most spiteful putdowns she had to endure during her campaign for the presidency early this year was Ferdinand Marcos' contention that a woman's proper place was in the bedroom. Last week she savored some sweet revenge. Speaking before a group of businesswomen in Manila, she referred to the deposed Marcos as the "first male chauvinist to underestimate me," though presumably not the last. Then Mrs. President, as she now likes to be called...
...Britain's National Theater that transferred last week to London's West End, and a film version, also written by Simon, that opens nationwide in the U.S. on Christmas Day. Next Simon wrote 1985's Biloxi Blues, an astringent look at World War II Army recruits (including himself) whose macho bravado often obscured a lack of true moral courage. It won what he considered an "overdue" Tony for best play?it was his 21st Broadway production?and it too may become a movie...
...graduates Lesieutre and Shah in Math 213a, “Complex Analysis.” They even blocked together this year. So what is Harris’s advice for girls hoping to join the ranks of Math 55 graduates? “Don’t take the macho-boy math thing too seriously,” Harris warns. “Just have...
...system is still nigh impossible to find at a fair price) started to discuss the physical risks inherent in such a revolutionary style of play. Players of the complimentary launch title “Wii Sports,” for example, have noticed that a few hours of macho smashes can result in a case of tennis elbow as acute as that experienced by any real court pro. With third-party game developers still warming up, it’s clear that this is just the beginning...