Word: sures
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Delta plantation princess that it was irrational for two healthy, mature adults to deny themselves the God-given pleasures of sexual play. I figured that anybody intelligent enough to get into Harvard would not let something as puerile as religious convictions prevent her from living a normal adult life. Sure, I wrote the perfunctory essay about how I was going to use my Harvard education for the benefit of mankind, or, at least, to enhance my ability to appreciate the complexity of life around me. But, as I later learned in Psych 1650, my unconscious had other plans...
...call the return of protest to college campuses "ugly," and homosexuality a "problem to be surmounted." Lamont yearns for the days when Harvard and the "elite universities" were one big Finals Club, enjoying "comfortable, if snobbish, intimacy" and "benign" parietal rules, all blond hair and blue eyes and a sure guarantee of The Big Coin after graduation. About a third of the way through it hits you: you flip to the picture on the back jacket and, with his brow ridge and prognathous jaw and small cranial capacity--that's where you've seen him before! National Geographic...
...Mass that each branch of the University be self-Hall's "eyes and ears;" during the South Africa protests, while Bok was swamped by students, he strolled unassailed among them and tried to pick up the mood of the crowd. Whatever major decisions Bok makes, you can be sure Steiner had a hand in the choice...
Esquire's new editor is 32; the publisher, a onetime college friend of his, is 31. Editor Phillip Moffitt, having now reached the average Esquire reader's age (the 30's) is sure he knows exactly what his generation wants: less of the old smart-ass Moffitt's generation, he says, saw the emptiness of their parents' lives but have now outgrown their own cynicism. Economically, "they assume they can make it if they work," says Moffitt. So "after survival needs, they want to know who they are, they want more meaningful vacations, careers...
Will she continue acting? She looks surprised. "Sure. God, I don't know what else I could do. They got me when I was a baby." But the thought does not trail off there, and this teenager, who has been interviewed too many times, sounds resilient. "I also want to do other things, like open a business, maybe design clothes or go and help people with problems, like help the refugees in those boats...