Word: pete
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Already, just the names prompt small chuckles of remembrance: Alexander Haig, Pat Robertson, Pete du Pont, Joseph Biden, Bruce Babbitt, Paul Simon. Has it really been just four months since Iowa anointed Richard Gephardt and Bob Dole as the favorites? Before Primary Season 1988 is carted off to the Smithsonian, it seems fitting to step back and ponder some lessons of the campaign that was. After all, as the Duchess instructed Alice in Wonderland, "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find...
Only a handful of musical events livened up an otherwise lackluster year. HarvAid brought Pete Seeger and many too-rarely-seen folk artists to Sanders Theatre for a two-night divestment benefit. The Din and Tonics gave away free gewgaws, such as cheap toys and cans of WD-40, to everyone in their Sanders audience. Sophomore Jonathan Shecter started a rap group, B.M.O.C., and released a single about Harvard that showed surprising candor about his creative motivations: "I'm a Harvard undergrad, a scholarly scholar/And I'm using rap music to make me dollars." Musically, these events weren't much...
Like the speaker's canopy, the Commencement sound and light systems are used only during these first weeks of summer break. The two systems together are worth approximately $60,000, says Pete Clancy, director of Harvard Technical Services, but the greatest costs come from the labor required to install them. Since it takes five technicians three weeks to set up the equipment, it is too inconvenient to use for anything other than Commencement, he says...
...watermelon. By myriad accounts, the streaker's game, whatever the game, seems to be played in slow motion. Wayne Gretzky speaks of hockey that way. At the height of his batting powers, Ted Williams claimed he was able to read the spinning labels on 78-r.p.m. recordings. Pete Rose could count the stitches on a curving baseball. To Race Driver Jackie Stewart, nothing in the world seemed as serenely slow as a car responding well at 200 m.p.h...
...nicest, most helpful members of the Harvard coaching community, in my experience, are clearly the two basketball coaches--Peter Roby and Kathy Delaney Smith. Kathy has finally found success on the court, hopefully Pete will not be far behind. Good luck...