Word: penning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...governorship of New York State? Political books are rarely written merely to enrich the intellectual content of bourgeois existence. Sen. Gary W. Hart (D-Colo.) did not churn out A New Democracy because he fancied himself a renaissance man, nor did Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) pen a how-to nuke freeze guide because he could only express his heartfelt convictions in mass market soft-cover...
...annoyances during reading and exam periods--besides the exams themselves, of course. Someone always finishes the semester before you, making your plight seem all the worse. Dining halls echo with a thousand whines. One of the worst of these plagues comes in three Day-Glo colors: the highlighter pen...
Although books in the undergraduate libraries bear a warning that deliberate markings are grounds for disciplinary action, this provision seems to be enforced rarely if at all. Gumchewing, Walkman-clad culprits crowd the libraries, marking the books in neon pink, sky blue, or margarine yellow. Of course, the highlighter pen is not the only device used to destroy Harvard's books. Some annotaters opt for the more efficient method of making brackets in the margins--which at least annoys future readers a little less. Others add their own insights. "This is stupid," or "Imperialistic bull"--as if to clue...
There is one more comment of Mr. Howe's which at best must have come from a slip of the pen. He says that President Bok "has made sure that Harvard doesn't invest in companies which don't sign the Sullivan Principles." This is simply false. Robert Neer, a colleague of Mr. Howe's, rightly pointed out in a Crimson article on divestsiture (5/8/84) that "Harvard holds... stock in eight companies that have not signed the Sullivan Principles or are not fully abiding by them." This is public knowledge and has been amply documented. The Corporation itself says that...
...sense, and it is this common sense which makes Atwood's insights so accessible and simultaneously so rich. Time after time, the reader's jolt of recognition and pleasure comes from one simple fact: Atwood expresses herself so well. As with her novels, one reads her essays with a pen nearby, constantly jotting down some spark of truth: she offers several epigrams. "Canadian-Arherican Relations Surviving the Eighties" (1981) contains the following aside...