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After Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, Whiteside noted, student attitudes began to change. They began to concentrate on academics and socializing before the war claimed their futures. There was the need to "dot all the i's and cross all the t's before [we] leave this place never to return," says Whiteside...
...friendships built up and a lot of people getting together," he says. "To me it will never be quite the same. In many ways it's more modern and there are nicer facilities, but I always look back with longing at that time."Courtesy Harvard ArchivesPre-Pearl Harbor: Harvard students protest outside the office of Harvard President James Bryant Conant '14 against increased U.S. involvement...
...immediacy of its emotions, the palliative power of its wit. They can swim in its gorgeous images: the fruit seen below a sheath of ice, the oars dipping into dark water, the fearful maiden rushing between high hedges and across battlefields. They surely believe in Swinton as the pearl and perfection of any gender; her poise and gravity, and the drama of her pale face under a crown of red hair, could mark her as this generation's russet Redgrave. Orlando proves anything is possible in movies if artists can make it plausible...
...North Cambridge and Pearl Street Senior Centers, social and cultural activities usually continue year-round, but this winter's heavy snowfall led to many cancellations...
...Blair House session was held in a first-floor conference room dominated by a portrait of Franklin Roosevelt. At least one of Clinton's aides noted the irony: "Here it was Pearl Harbor Day, and we were dropping an economic bombshell on the boss under a painting of the Depression President." To minimize the chances of Clinton's insisting on a line-by-line reassessment of his plan's assumptions, a chart titled Budget Deficit Forecasts Under PPF Policies was, according to one Clinton aide, "rounded off in a conelike fashion and rendered approximate." It was a fool's errand...