Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rumor started going around in the winter of freshman year that the Union's coffee didn't have caffeine. After that, a lot of people wondered how they had been able to pull all those all-nighters. It was about the same time that I was trying to figure out where the pass keys for all the Yard dorms were coming from. And who was Charles Montalbano...
...become household faces. Author Thomas Pynchon, 46, apparently anticipated this problem during his adolescence. The only photograph of him to surface publicly shows a typical American teen-age male circa mid-1950s: crew cut, protuberant ears and a sleepy stare. Since then, nothing, not even a forwarding address; rumor has him spending a lot of time in Southern California. An eerie question arises: How did the young Pynchon know that his writings would one day set readers off on a quest to find him? His prescience has proved remarkable...
...Union of students, and the Undergraduate Council have blown this event so far out of proportion that I cannot see how any Harvard-Radcliffe student or administrator could form an objective opinion. This letter, however, is intended for those of you who do not base your judgements on hearsay, rumor, or excessive exaggeration. If you want some information about the club, talk to one of its members (we don't bite, honest). If not, please refrain from drawing conclusions based on the extensively one-sided, anti-Pi Eta portrayed that you have witnessed in the Crimson this past week...
Divisions may begin to surface once Khomeini is gone. Informed rumor has it the Ayatullah has already sent the name of his chosen successor, in a sealed envelope to be opened at his death, to the 60-man council of clergymen that will formally decide the issue. His most likely choice is Montazeri, the mastermind of the regime's attempts to export its revolution. But the short...
LONG BEFORE America's oldest monthly changed its look and format, there were long faces and knowing smiles in the magazine world. Rumor had it that Lewis Lapharm. Harper's former editor, had regained his job on the strength of a memo he wrote to Harper's board which outlined a proposal for a drastic change in the magazine's ideology. There were whispers that the economically troubled monthly was going to become a glorified op-ed page in an effort to become more commercially successful...