Word: minding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...details may not be actively conveyed, but the picture presented by greeters of life at Harvard is generally accurate. And overall, new students say they don't mind the greeters' style...
...nothing seems to be further from the Harvard mind than this April holiday. The students with whom I discussed Patriot's Day either had no idea what I was talking about or were nostalgic for high school when this holiday was observed. Some charged that Harvard, insular as it can be, does not consider itself part of Massachusetts, but that is profoundly untrue. Not only does Harvard appear in the state constitution (exempting itself from taxes, but that is another story), but the University is a proud part of Cambridge, relying on and contributing to the community is ways that...
...smokers of theSmelly Rock Smoking Club knows this annoyance onlytoo well. "My non-smoking boyfriend no longer asksme to quit because he'd rather put up with mynasty habit than my mood swings from trying toquit," she says. Burns, on the other hand, is arealist. "I don't mind friends' criticism toomuch," she says, "because I know they have apoint...
...fashioned,old-school aura--one of the last bastions of theHarvard "old boys club." Images of ancient Harvardsports teams clutter the dark walls (check out the1908 baseball team's sexy knickerbockers).Footballs from long-forgotten Harvard-Yale games,ticket stubs from games back in '92 (that's 1892,mind you), and championship oars hang as remindersof past glory. A century-old Leavitt & Peirce adurges students to order their "class pipes." Anupper-crust masculinity oozes out of the walls...
...celebration, they seem to be a cultural imposition of American ideals--of celebrity and ostentatiousness--upon the rough-hewn world of the sabra (native Israeli). Many American Jews like to play down the differences between themselves and Israelis, but the New York intellectual will never be of the same mind as the organic kibbutznik. Philip Roth, this year's recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, makes exactly this point in Operation Shylock, in which the lead character named Philip Roth encounters his double, also calling himself Philip Roth, in the streets of Jerusalem. While the one Roth is enjoying...