Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those who pass their interview with The Club's admissions committee receive their own "permanent slice of Cambridge": banquet rooms, masseur, squash courts, valet, ticket office, boot black, cigar stand and barber. Not to mention the games of bridge and backgammon, evenings of brandy and wine, entertainment by a capella and a play-wright's dialogue, a cozy library and the opportunity to tap into a "valuable resource for business or personal...
...feeling also may say, "Was this my slice of Cambridge?" The Club's peculiarly anachronistic view of what Cambridge and college represent to many undergraduates reflects a pervasive ambiguity about Harvard. It is part citadel of learning, part bastion of snobbery; part university, part national power center...
...Club tells us: Get used to it. Become familiar with the notion of exclusivity. You are someone different. Why not keep your own "permanent slice of Cambridge" wherever you go? And never forget it's your Cambridge, not anyone else...
...alive the racial tensions of the 1950's, even in the limited context of Childress' Broadway scenario. The play strikes a delicate balance between laughter and despair, and that perhaps, is its greatest strength. It is not straight drama, nor straight comedy, but as Sheldon would put it, "a slice of life...
...recognition from the Western allies, but here too the Red Army soon marched in and took over. And so things remained until World War II, when Joseph Stalin began trying to re-create the empire of the Czars -- and more. By attacking the Finns in 1939, he seized a slice of southern Finland; by making a deal with the Germans, he once again annexed the Baltic states. Then, after repelling the Nazi invasion, he established the Red Army in occupied East Germany in 1945, moved the Polish frontiers some 200 miles to the West and established a buffer zone...