Word: slight
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Reed could only take it as a slight against his background when a close friend of his refused, after first agreeing to join him as a roommate for the following year. John did his share of hurting as well, turning down a rooming offer from another freshman merely because of his heritage--he was a New Yorker, and Jewish. Other attempts to enter what he though was the mainstream of college life were wasted. After starring in Morristown football, Reed decided to give freshman crew a try. Even being the last man cut didn't deter his efforts to join...
Salaries, wages, and employee benefits paid by the University to its faculty and staff during 1981 were $234.1 million, an increase of 11.2% over the prior year. Taken together, these items constituted 52.4% of total University expenses for the year, a slight reduction from 53.5% of expenses one year earlier. This change reflects the higher rates of increase in expense categories other than salaries and wages within the University community and displays the difficulty which Harvard, along with other leading universities, has had in raising salaries at rates comparable to inflation. Smee employment during the year was approximately constant...
...Delta of Venus and The Hite Report. But even the lustiest prose is underplayed. Actor Dan Lazar reads My Wicked, Wicked Ways, Errol Flynn's spicy autobiography, in the vocal equivalent of Muzak. Says Hecht: "We don't mind a slight inflection at tense or emotional moments, but the listener will find his own excitement in the words just as he does when he reads a novel...
Harvard experienced a slight drop in enrollment this year, with about 100 fewer undergraduates this year than last, although enrollment is still about 500 students higher than in 1971, admissions office figures indicate...
More damaging, though is the staggering detail in the book and the author's attempt to find deep psychological meaning in every slight object or detail. She wants to find eternity in every grain of sand but ends up looking at an ocean of sand...