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...Lane, who hasn't read NeW's constitution, bases her opinion on Hoff Sommer's lecture and campus rumor. "Someone told me that Lynn Cheney is a major contributor of theirs," she says. Such hearsay, however, is wrong. "I wish Lynn Cheney was a major contributor of NeW!" Agness muses...
...Levine, Stephen Sandy, Robert Creeley (unknown to each other, we were judges for the 1987 American Awards and met at the reception), Robert Kelly, Allen Ginsberg, and Peter Orlovsky. “Howl” had just been published to be immediately banned in public and on the airwaves. Rumor had it that Ginsberg had staged a reading on the steps of the Grolier; the police then shut it down. After Ginsberg’s death, a group of us challenged the obscenity ruling. We staged, sponsored by The Boston Phoenix, the first reading of “Howl?...
...whole that the students were far more sympathetic than the administration,” Schatz says.There was also an uproar when the 1981 yearbook poked fun at Adams House’s reputation as a magnet for gay undergraduates, calling it “a haven for homosexuality. Rumor has it that the [sex] ratio is one to one to one, or one to one to one too many.”The comment was condemned by the GSA and the Adams House Committee.The editor of the yearbook, Jared S. Corman ’81, apologized but refused to retract...
...reasons I wrote the Vietnam memoir A Rumor of War was to show how that kind of war can bring out a psychopathic streak in men of otherwise normal behavior and impulses. When a soldier is fighting guerrillas, he can often feel like a helpless victim. I imagine that must be especially true in Iraq with these roadside bombs. After a while, that's got to bring out a killer instinct in even the best troops. And soldiers in combat get very close to one another. That's one of the saving graces of battle, but it can work against...
...other rumor was that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were planning to honor the country where their daughter was born by naming her Branamibia...