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...Someth May distinctly remembers his mathematics tutor at a private school in Cambodia (now Kampuchea). He was a thin man with short gray hair who drove around town on a "rusty old sky-blue Mobylette." It made a terrible noise that his laughing students likened to a "tubercular cough." He always dressed simply, allowed no jokes and demanded punctuality, but he was a popular teacher who never punished his charges. At the end of each lesson, the mild man in sandals generally delivered a brief lament for the corruption of their society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ghost Stories Came True: CAMBODIAN WITNESS | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...have a variety of individuals, but for most of them it's merely a stopping place, a transient community. So for most people Harvard can provide a very comfortable time if they enjoy meeting other people of different types. It is a sort of entertainment, like going slumming or someth ing.tIi (bffi,t IRV.push or something. It is just a cultural activity, part of the necessary paraphernalia for an "education." For me it was much more because I had left behind my sort of lower class background and had attempted to identify with the broader culture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The True Story of a Disenchanted But Not Hung-Up Son of Harvard | 3/4/1968 | See Source »

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