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...Harvard experience: an experience that has consisted of four years’ worth of lectures, parties, and dining hall dinners. There are the people we have met, the classes we have taken, and the extracurricular activities we have poured our hearts into. Understandably then, graduating is an emotional personal moment, and consequently, during it, expensive keepsakes should be the last things on on one’s mind. However, there is a growing trend toward reducing the personal importance of the occasion to potential purchases. For example, Harvard encourages families to send out graduation announcements, in the same...
...Resistance-hero husband for American airman John Wayne - but it's miscast, risibly implausible, your basic botch. In The Canterville Ghost (1944), Dassin's job was to referee between two shameless scene-stealers: Charles Laughton and the seven-year-old Margaret O'Brien. If there's a magic moment in any of these features, it might be the climax to Two Smart People (1946), where gunzel Elisha Cook, Jr., falls dead off a balcony during Mardi Gras and lands on a firemen's cloth hoop held by the crowd of revelers, who gaily keep bouncing the corpse into...
...CAPTURING THE MOMENT...
...This sort of claim comes out of desperation, not contemplation. Ignoring for the moment issues of capacity—it’s unclear just how many more party-goers Harvard’s final clubs might accommodate before the Cambridge Police Department comes a-knockin’—it’s also unfairly apocalyptic to believe that just because undergraduates are drinking to extremes off-campus, as opposed to in their dorm rooms, they will be any less willing to seek medical attention in an emergency. (“Oh no! Jane has stopped breathing...
...genre, the redemption tale is not unheard-of in American politics. In 1999, George W. Bush introduced himself to his conservative base by speaking of the moment he gave up alcohol and hard living, for family and God. Barack Obama has written of a time in college when he was unfocused, dabbling in marijuana and cocaine, before finding direction. Bill Clinton, at various times, claimed to have reformed his less-than-honorable ways, as well...