Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...However, even this third plan was close to accidental. While her future Harvard-Radcliffe classmates were putting the final touches on essays in time for the January I deadline, she says she had not even considered applying to the big H. It was not until February, while visiting her sister in Brighton, that she was convinced to apply to Harvard...
...have tired my life in an atmosphere of deepest respect for Harvard. My grandfather father, several uncles, three brothers and a sister all were pa. Harvard alumni family. Indeed, at the invitation of the editors, I wrote a piece for last year's reunion issue of The Crimson about the difficulties and rewards of working my way through Harvard at the depth of the depression. When I received my degree a year after the rest of my class in 1935, the platform was graced by Albert Einstein. Thomas Mann and others who had made great contributions to our knowledge...
...very mention of the name John Leonard it seemed that Montaigne threw his mantel across his shoulders and left the room, followed by Pascal delicately lifting the skirt of his vestments; Hazlitt said he had a previous engagement at the five courts, Lamb muttered something about his sister not being well. Orwell stubbed out his cigarette. Camus buckled the belt of his trenchcoat, and they were all gone...
Thomson's romance with the dark side of American cinema leads to complicated relationships. Laura Hunt's older sister is Mary Frances Bailey (Donna Reed), wife of George Bailey (James Stewart) of It's a Wonderful Life. Those who must believe the worst about even the nicest people will be pleased to learn that George and Sister-in-Law Laura enjoyed a pre-Christmas tryst at New York City's Pierre Hotel. Julian Kay (Richard Gere in American Gigolo) was born in an asylum, son of the mad Norma Desmond and Screenwriter Joe Gillis, whom she shot in the last...
Glass learned to play the piano by listening to his older brother and sister taking their lessons and imitating them. The son of a Baltimore record store owner, he began studying the flute at the age of eight at the Peabody Conservatory of Music. Precocious academically as well as musically, Glass entered the University of Chicago at 15 and graduated with a degree in mathematics and philosophy. He studied music too, working his way through the Beethoven quartets and teaching himself the twelve-tone system...