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...other side of the coin, soccer's Jape Shattuck was less than pleasant during my year with the team. And no one matches football coach Joe Restic for general boorishness and unhelpfulness. Even during last fall's Ivy championship season, Restic persisted in leaving phone calls unreturned and requests unfulfilled. I got the feeling that Restic felt himself too professional to have to deal with the lowly student press, but his conduct during my three years on the beat was anything but professional...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Stepping Back and Taking Notice | 5/27/1988 | See Source »

David and Harriet aspire to a life of "pleasant suburbia." They are not swept up in the social causes of their peers, and their rejection of the sexual freedom offered by late 20th century society is symbolized by their denouncing of the Pill. Instead, they dream of a life of quiet domesticity directed toward making a large, happy family named, appropriately, the Lovatts...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: There's a Monster in the House | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...students who have navigated these reefs and gained acceptance to elite schools find themselves in a very pleasant harbor. Or three, or four. "My interviewer at Princeton is so nice to me now," says Donna Katz, of Kensington, Md., who was accepted at five top schools. "He really wasn't when he first interviewed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Campus Scramble to Recruit | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

Mike is a word processor. Hmmmmmm. Click, click, click. Paragraphs from that fellow over there, thoughts from that woman opposite. Phrases from pleasant platitudes past and present. Committee review. Clip and paste. Put this up there, that down here. Reassemble it all in a white plastic machine and then read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Of Poets and Word Processors | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

David T. Wasserman, a newly-appointed Fellow from the Center for Research in Crime and Justice at the New York University School of Law, described his selection as a "pleasant surprise...

Author: By Pradeep P. Atluri, | Title: Seven Ethics Scholars Named | 4/9/1988 | See Source »

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