Word: misses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whether the College asks the student to consider taking the year off or not, most say they come to the decision entirely on their own. Laura L. Blodgett '89 decided as a senior at Miss Porter's School that before she tried out Cambridge she wanted to sample life in Paris and California. During her senior year Blodgett was trying to juggle artistic endeavors, athletics and academics and felt that she needed a break from high-pressured school life...
...path that led Marian Wright Edelman to become one of Washington's most unusual lobbyists began on April 5, 1968, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. Then a civil rights lawyer practicing in Jackson, Miss., Edelman had sought out a group of black teenagers, hoping to dissuade them from violence. But when she tried to warn them that looting and rioting in the streets "may ruin your future," one boy angrily shot back, "Lady, why should I listen to you? Lady, I ain't got no future...
...miss the parents. I miss the family," he said. "But I never really felt homesick in Boston, because you can go down to one of the pubs and it's as if you're back home...
...education has detached itself from physical moorings, set adrift in disembodied lecturing voices and reams of silent pages. I miss construction paper and scissors; science fair projects and fieldtrips. Those things kept my senses alive; involved my body in the invisible struggle of 11-year-old neurons...
...Innocents turns the horror story/psychodrama novel into a drawing room drama. The action of the play centers on Miss Giddens (Ellen Harvey), a young governess for an unusual family in an old English country house, circa the late 1800's. The only residents of this isolated estate are two adolescent children, brother and sister, named Miles (Glen Whitney) and Flora (Kathy Urso), and their maid, Mrs. Grose (Carolyn Duffy...