Word: showing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Attempts to secure a spring concert were equally unsuccessful. In April, the council in emergencey session voted down a planned Chuck Berry concert, which would have cost $25,000. The vote, bolstered by representatives who said the show would be too expensive and too short, came after a non-council representative negotiationg on behalf of the council had verbally agreed to a late April concert with Berry's agent. It was unclear whether the council action would hurt Harvard's reputation among music agents and the council's chances of signing acts in the future...
...were usually about political--notpersonal--first principles as I resisted makingpersonal revelations or admitting to anyunhappiness or imperfection. The closestembodiment of ironic detachment this side of DavidLetterman, I was conscious of my inordinateself-consciousness (meta, no?), yet unaware of howmiserable I was. At least Dave had his TV show...
...guess is that the investment banking world does not look as attractive as the year before," says Harvard Law School Dean James Vorenberg '49. "Perhaps the possibility of being a lawyer for the government looks like a more interesting possibility. Some people say it is because of [the television show] L.A. Law. The honest answer at the moment is that we don't know...
Moreover, they state, they all have similar ideas of what constitutes a good time. All prefer a movie or show to a beer bash, and all confess to a passion for a good game of bridge. "We go to lots of movies, dinners and shows together," Stone says. And in the process of spending time together, he adds, "we've certainly washed off on each other...
Wolfe's exploration of the American urban experience helps chart a path outside the college gates, where all the world can sometimes seem a trade show. He exhorts us to cut through society's channels--lawyer, investment banker, janitor, teacher--and connect with each other...