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When I came in a variety of groups ran parallel to each other. The first group I met was the international set, primarily from M.I.T. and the Harvard Business School. They held lively parties–probably the liveliest in Cambridge. As an aside, the members of The Harvard Advocate certainly knew how to party as well. The third was composed of Horace Reynolds, the translator, George Palmer, the poet who published under the name of George Anthony, Gunther Neufeld, an art critic from Germany, George Burroughs, once the head of the WPA Writers Project in Hawaii who had become...
...parent’s generation had the Vietnam War. They were not as uniformly committed to the cause in the way their parents were to World War II. However, the threat of a draft pulled them into civic discourse. Many ran for office, protested, and became radicals. They managed to get a constitutional amendment passed that lowered the voting age to 18, elected a new crop of congressmen, and eventually ended the war. Both those who supported and opposed the war saw an opportunity to allow their voices to be heard and wanted to participate in American democracy. The sacrifice...
...This meet proved that we’re still a good team, and it was even better to win [the Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet] in our own pool.” The Crimson further demonstrated its supremacy in the league with a victory the following weekend against Penn, which ran its record to 8-1 in dual meets and ensured Harvard a share of the EISL regular-season title. In the penultimate meet of the season, the EISL Championships, Harvard fell short of Princeton’s 1,393 points, totaling only 1,287 even though it stuck with...
...inning win, a performance that may well have secured Ivy Pitcher of the Year honors for the sophomore. He boasted a microscopic 0.73 ERA in five regular-season Ivy decisions. But losses in games two and three forced a decisive finale in Hanover. After squandering several leads, the Crimson ran off the final 14 runs in a 23-9 triumph behind a monster effort from Klimkiewicz, returning to action from an elbow injury. “That’s the kind of team we’ve had most of the season,” Klimkiewicz said afterwards...
...interview with “Mother Jones.”Faludi received a Pulitzer Prize in 1991 for her Wall Street Journal coverage of leveraged buyouts of Safeway supermarkets. She has also written for The New York Times and Newsweek.Her interest in journalism began early and ran deep.In fifth grade, she inadvertently made waves when she conducted a poll of fellow students’ opinions on abortion and the Vietnam War.“Not being the loudest person on the block, not being one who regularly interrupted in class or caused a scene, I discovered that through writing...