Word: rottenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the recent commemoration of Harvard's 350th birthday, much was made of the treatment of the first undergraduates at the hands of the first head of the College and his wife. Master and Mistress Nathaniel Eaton, we were told, repeatedly beat the students and fed them rotten pudding. It saddens me to think that in three and a half centuries Harvard has made so little progress in the treatment of its undergraduates. Instead of being neglected physically, they are now being neglected intellectually...
Earl Peckham is the serious author of The Sorry Scheme of Things Entire and The Ghastly Dinner Party, "an unsparing delineation of the worm-eaten psyche of modern man as exemplified in the subcutaneous motivations propelling the social lives of urban people whose surfaces are rotten enough." Sorry Scheme sold three copies. Earl's girlfriend Poppy McCloud writes best-selling romances like Break Slowly, Dawn and commands $2 million advances. What do these vastly different writers have in common, besides a publisher named Dogwinkle? Well, there is sex, which the pun-loving Peter De Vries, 76, might call the great...
...first thing to factor into your computer purchase decision is what your roommates have and what computer you are most familiar with. If your roommates all own IBM compatibles ($1000-$2500) with lots of software and printers hooked up, there is little reason for you to be the rotten apple in the rooming group...
...Ralph Rotten, former counterman at Tommy's Lunch. If you think Pusey was tough on protesters when he sent police to clean out University Hall, just imagine what Ralph would have done to the long-hairs in the shanties. Three months and everyone would be wide awake during every lecture. OR ELSE...
This sort of reasoning is indicative of a more general misunderstanding of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Whenever some bad guy "gets off" because his rights were violated, the cry goes up among members of the Dirty Harry School of Justice that surely something is rotten in Denver when "animals" are afforded such noble protections. But what is forgotten is that the stringent proscriptions of the Constitution are there to protect the innocent. The Constitution protects the liberties of the guilty so as to safeguard those of the innocent--those who have nothing to hide...