Word: membership
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Drinking alcohol is not a prerequisite for membership in any club. In 1989, an excessive drinker is seen as a potential liability, not an asset...
...book is finally out, and it turns out to be far more personal than that. It is a candid and powerful inquiry into his parents, their union activities during the 1940s and their secret membership in the Communist Party. As Bernstein explains to his father, "It's a very personal book. It's not a history book at all." In fact, it is a book about writing a book, a book about Bernstein writing the book that his parents did not want him to write...
...question to his father. "I remember the silence that followed and my not daring to look at him," Bernstein writes. "My question offered no escape; there is no Fifth Amendment for eight-year-olds." His father tried to skirt the question, speaking instead about the irrelevance of party membership and the persecution of progressives. "I didn't ask any questions when he finished explaining, and I'm sure he guessed that my silence meant that I knew. It took twenty-five years before I asked him that question again...
Until Hannam's successor, Clyvan Belle '88, took over. Belle expanded the club's membership and the schedule expanded while interest about the previously unknown sport spread across campus...
...even then the administration hailed diversity's importance. "Each house is intended to comprise as nearly as may be a cross-section of the whole residential membership of the College," said Lowell...