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...setting for this kind of observation about Harvard is that it is short and attracts a wide range of not-especially-Harvard types, people who come here from very different settings to which they will quickly return. Not given the chance to adapt, they go through the kind of rude clash between their non-Harvard selves and the University that is usually reserved for first-term freshmen here (and their malaise is different anyway, having to do more with the painful adjustment to being average...
...slip of the tongue, and he never looked too suspicious--he was one of the least distrustful people I knew. The only known exception to this rule was his Inquiry listing a string of actions by the History faculty, that ranged from declining to waive department requirements to acting rude to him in elevators. "None of this was in my self-interest," he wrote, in a classic expression of Harvard paranoia. "I began to see the pattern emerging...
Sticks and Bones comes as a rude intrusion into our post-Vietnam weariness and revulsion, too blatantly reminding us that David's blindness is still our own. It's no surprise then that the Dunster House version of Sticks and Bones is playing to small audiences, but it is a shame. Rabe's play and this production of it deserve better...
Ford meets the press often, and the encounter is sometimes painful. He was brutally challenged by reporters after he granted the pardon to his predecessor. He has been bluntly asked on TV whether he is smart enough to be President, a rude question that would not have been asked of most of his predecessors. But Ford accepts the brickbats as part of his job. It would be inconceivable for him to cancel a subscription to a newspaper* that offended him, as John Kennedy did, or denounce individual reporters in the manner of Lyndon Johnson, much less put wiretaps on newsmen...
...Norwegian citizen who lives in Spain and whose mother is from Uruguay, yesterday's match was a rude lesson in shuttle diplomacy. In his most recent outings, Vik had won the Ivy title and finished first...