Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...come to meet Carnesale, bring a firm handshake and a healthy store of determination. A towering bear of a man, he greets you with a shock of anarchic white hair and a ruddy face with a stiffly mischievous grin. Unlike Rudenstine's office, which is a picture right out of a designer's catalogue, Carnesale's has a certain stoic feel to it, with no personal effects or complications in decor--bearing a striking resemblance to how he handles issues...
...arrived in Cambridge in '43, a 17-year-old kid from the country, and I was surrounded by a sea of uniforms," he says. "Harvard was virtually a military camp, and I was a skinny kid in civilian clothes. That was the shock...
...Your decision to refuse Professor Honig tenure has been greeted with shock and disbelief across the University and beyond," 15 senior faculty women wrote in a letter of protest to Rudenstine after the decision...
There were women in all the big lecture classes, but having come from a co-ed high school, this was not a culture shock, but a pleasant confirmation of the way things should be. I didn't realize what a change of tradition the women represented...
That life is much more complicated now. The charges against Albert would be shocking enough if they didn't seem so out of character. Bad hair, maybe. But bad behavior is not what friends and colleagues have come to expect from Albert. "I'm in total shock," says Michael Weisman, who as executive producer of NBC Sports gave Albert the national spotlight. "On both a professional and personal level, he was a joy to be around. What they're saying about him just doesn't click." Equally disbelieving are New York fans who grew up listening to "Yesss!" and "Kick...