Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which "a modernist presence has taken shape." Kitaj's room is a bizarre assemblage of model lighthouses, smokestacks, machined bas-reliefs of railway trucks, photographs of "The Father of Aviation" together with "The Mother and Daughter of Aviation." There is even a 6-ft. diorama of a mine tunnel with a mouth that is inscribed with uplifting Victorian mottoes...
...reached the CRIMSON building, we had to stop for a few seconds in traffic. A friend of mine happened to walk out of the CRIMSON at that point, and as most Harvard students do, he surveyed the passengers from front to back, and three-quarters of the way back he suddenly doubled up with laughter at the sight' of me, staring out like all the others. This reaction brought an embarrassed silence to the bus as everyone tried to figure out who or what was so laughable. When another person came by and began to laugh, heads turned back...
...embarrassment became mine, and I tried to act surprised myself. I began to feel like a spy at that point, like a student who had gotten on to see what the sightseers were saying about us all the time, and in fact, that's what I was. I began to feel guilty in these people's eyes and hoped that they hadn't all guessed that I had a bursar's card in my wallet...
...that's water under the bridge, isn't it? The Class of '21 survived and, like all Harvard classes, mine ('71) included, went on to provide the world with investment bankers, lawyers, corporation directors and trustees, doctors, scientists, teachers, salesmen. Harvard '21 also gave the world some celebrities and, although it's not nice to talk about such things, some failures...
...only five classmates lost their lives in combat), so perhaps it's not surprising that there are few politicians among its ranks. Still there is Powers Hapgood (d., 1949), who completed Harvard in three years so he could spend his senior year working in iron and coal mines, railroad yards and Chicago slaughter houses. Hapgood went on to become a leader of the United Mine Workers, a defeated Socialist candidate for Governor of Indiana, a major organizer of the CIO and an early member of the NAACP...