Word: popularity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prepared--the auditions can be grueling, and, especially if you play a popular instrument like the flute, very tough. The worst hazard isn't the auditions themselves but the aspiring freshmen musicians, who will sidle up to you while you're waiting to try out and just happen to mention that they've played as the visiting soloist for the Cleveland Symphony, or studied with Jean-Pierre Rampal. Don't let them psych you out--they probably won't get in either...
This may not be enough, though. One professor, whose seminar is enormously popular, admits only one or two students without fathers famous enough to be known to him. Another dismisses the written applications in favor of geographical, income-level, racial, and educational balance. Many resort to a lottery past the initial application...
...ride away, just beyond Fresh Pond, is Mt. Auburn Cemetery. You may find it somewhat surprising that a cemetery is one of the more popular picnic areas in town. The older section, with elaborate sculpted stones boasting names like Lowell and Winthrop, is the more scenic. On the highest part of the cemetery rests a romantic turreted stone tower from which you can get an amazing view of the Boston skyline. Manicured paths line the cemetery itself, and they can be wonderful places to wander when you want to be alone and outdoors...
...make matters worse, The Harvard Mystique is largely derivative. Lopez lifts stuff from every popular magazine he can lay his hands on. From Esquire, he steals whole descriptive passages about the atmosphere of the Harvard Business School. From the Crimson he steals sensational stuff that no respectable author would steal. Lopez rehashes recent controversies that have plagued Harvard in recent years--the fight over genetic determination and I.Q., the University's connection with the Central Intelligence Agency, the fight over the relocation of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library. It's all been said before--and much better...
...most popular brand in the U.S. is Perrier, a French import that comes in an elegant tear-shaped green bottle. Says Patrick Terrail, owner of Ma Maison in Los Angeles: "Perrier has become a cocktail in its own right." For the thirsty cosmopolitan there are also Contrexéville and Evian waters, the two bestsellers in France, West Germany's preferred Apollinaris and Gerolsteiner Sprudel, and Ferrarelle, one of Italy's favorites...