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...Riff-Raff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Club May Soon Off Coat and Tie | 11/9/1970 | See Source »

...anonymity of the Faculty Club lobby where the poll has been conducted brought forth a variety of uninhibited comments on both sides. Remarks ranged from, "Keep out the riff-raff-why should we look like the rest of Harvard Square?" and "an infringement of academic freedom, but let us retain trousers" to "Coats hide bombs" and "Shouldn't Harvard, above all, tolerate and encourage individuality?" [To this last an opponent had added-"Individuality? yes, in the color of ties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Club May Soon Off Coat and Tie | 11/9/1970 | See Source »

...lecture, I started telling loud anti-semitic jokes. Right in the middle of Lowell Lec! And I'm Jewish... Which reminds me: too many Jews around this place. It was okay for them to let me in, but who needs the rest of this riff-raff? Wasps, too. They should farm out Wasps...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Going Crazy At Harvard | 6/11/1970 | See Source »

...lecture. I started telling loud anti-semitic jokes. Right in the middle of Lowell Lec! And I'm Jewish! . . . Which reminds me: too many Jews around this place. It was okay for them to let me in, but who needs the rest of this riff-raff? Wasps, too. They should farm out Wasps...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: GOING CRAZY AT HARVARD They Shoot Horses . . . | 2/13/1970 | See Source »

Almost immediately he launched a private war of his own. Cast in with veterans who sang the praises of pot and the hippie life, Raff voiced his objections to these values. When the other Marines responded by jeering at his English and his ancestry, Raff chose one of them and savagely attacked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Anatomy of a Skyjacker | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

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