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...become a Yuppie right out of college or grad school, there may be fewer of us Puppies around. When I graduated, I followed up a job I started with Phillips Brooks House while I was an undergraduate, working at a community newspaper in East Boston. After a brief stint as a community organizer in Fall River I came back to East Boston to edit the paper, and finally left the paper to pursue freelance writing. It has become clear over the years I've spent with the paper that fewer and fewer students at Harvard of any other college...
...Rennaissance Man characteristics obscure what friends say is an intense sense of moral urgency that animates his approach to the presidency, a sharp contrast to the image of amorality which critics, especially those in the divestiture movement, paint of Bok. Simon, for instance, recalls the stint of military service Bok served in the Judge Advocate's Office in Washington in the early 1950s, when Bok fought the military's loyalty screening program, which ran a McCarthy-like board that investigated soldiers thought to be subversive...
Director Nela Wagman '84, in her first stint as director, does a superb job. Wagman's challenge is to let three characters in one room be neither distracting nor dull. Even at their best, the actors seemingly move spontaneously under her subtle direction...
...Ackroyd suggests that in many ways Vivien was a good wife, supporting her husband in his dark moods and offering solicited judgments on his manuscripts. Eliot's method of divorcing her shimmers with the indecisiveness of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: he went off for a stint of teaching in the U.S., told his lawyers to handle matters in his absence and hid from her when he returned to England. She died in a mental institution...
...that hurts no one more than the two very' stint captains...