Word: minding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During last week's demonstrations, marches and sit-outs to protest Harvard's support of apartheid, an image of myself as a scrawny 12-year-old kid standing in a deserted Harvard Square one afternoon nine years ago repeatedly crossed my mind. Shops had closed early, their windows boarded up, in anticipation of a demonstration later that night...
...before 7 a.m., when Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, strolled up to University Hall with something like business as usual in mind, a key transformation occurred: a group of 120 people, many of them strangers to one another, managed to pull together and organize the sit-out, in the face of fear and exhaustion and a gnawing feeling of "Why the hell should this work, anyway?" They were not representatives of the SASC, nor of the Democratic Socialists, nor the BSA, nor even the United Front. They were individuals...
...controversial 1963 book on Adolf Eichmann. The commercials, for example, were ridiculous and outrageous intrusions. Viewers drawn back into the most painful darknesses of the century would suddenly, repeatedly, find themselves jolted into clusters of ads that seemed almost deliberately designed to offend: the viewer's mind was forced to make the transit from Auschwitz to Bottoms Up pantyhose-one for those women who want the fanny rounded, the other for those who want it smooth. In one grotesque juxtaposition, the audience saw Dorf sitting with Eichmann and a couple of other SS officers in their dining room...
...along on sightseeing jaunts and taught her to be interested in good food and wine. "Richard has helped me more than anybody," says Gelsey. "He makes me laugh about certain things about myself. Just to see how he feels about me makes me feel good." In that frame of mind, Gelsey was primed last autumn to discover the joys of childhood in Baryshnikov's Nutcracker...
...Harvard, team and that "equal-access" admissions has forever solved the perennial problem of the Harvard sex ratio. Ignored are the larger problems of equal funding for women's athletic teams and minority recruitment reluctance. One almost feels that the show was designed with nostalgic alumni in mind...