Word: novak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...subsequent weeks, we have seen conservatives making the talk show circuits and publishing editorials berating Clinton for his comments in Uganda. Conservative Robert Novak is upset not just because America did nothing wrong, but because in his warped view, slavery was something right. After noting some prominent black Americans, Novak arrogantly said that "if it hadn't been for slavery, they wouldn't even be in America, would they?" Pat Buchanan seems to be in denial about the horrors of slavery, remarking in his syndicated column that "America deserves better than to have Clinton romping around sub-Saharan Africa, counting...
...these ideas, Novak's suggestion that the black people of this country ought be grateful that our ancestors were taken away from everything familiar to them on the coasts of West Africa and kept as slaves for centuries is the most banal. I don't want to shock Novak, but the Middle Passage was not quite a Carnival cruise. Patterns of whip lashes on the backs of slaves weren't regarded as pretty decorations. And being raped to breed bastard children that would be sold away from you wasn't exactly a good ol' romp...
...Reported by Jay Branegan, Margaret Carlson, James Carney, Michael Duffy, Viveca Novak, Karen Tumulty and Michael Weisskopf/Washington
Surprisingly, neither Marx nor Novak intend to concentrate in VES. Both feel that the department is far too "closed-off." Having attempted to take some filmmaking courses, Marx complains that one must "impress [the department] the right way" in order to gain entry. But perhaps the makers of "Who Laughs Last" simply wouldn't be interested in making films which are governed by the kind of academic refinement and complex self-scrutiny which the VES department seems to engender. These enthusiastic first-years may not experience Harvard's best offering to its filmmakers, yet they are perfectly happy...
...this comment, while cutting to those who still subscribe to the expression, strikes a nostalgic chord, harkening back to a time when kids could say "second base" and they all knew what that meant. Of all the students asked, B.J. Novak '01 was the only one to offer a solution: "Why don't we bring back the baseball system?" Sure, it was big in Junior High, and sure, college students are supposedly more mature, but wouldn't it be nice if inquiring minds could ask what happened last night and actually know? Yet, while ideal, this plan will undoubtedly never...