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...standard joke about Harvard's class of 1947 goes something like this: At your 25th reunion you think you know your classmates, and at the 50th you'd swear they were all your roommates.Courtesy Harvard Yearbook PublicationsDuring the "Great Return,' many students were forced to sleep in the Indoor Athletic Building...
...actually didn't swear at all in high school; I never used that particular word in casual conversation or scrawled it on bathroom stalls. I didn't want overuse to dim the impact of that word in case I ever needed it. But in (good) writing, words are sacred, and each one counts, and each one is there for a reason...
...like Harvard students don't swear. It's not as if four-letter words don't pervade our society, from movies to radio to the sounds of the street. Even a few Harvard professors have been known to slip when the Science Center projectors crash yet again...
...interrogation of Ms. Kirk, e.g., "How does it feel to know that your room is burning up right now?" I am appalled by his complete misunderstanding of sarcasm or wit. I admit that Ms. Kirk should have known better than to trust The Crimson with a chance to use swear words in a front-page story. (I do wonder how your alumni readers as well as parents who subscribe to your newspaper react to your casual use of "mother fucking" on the front page.) Nonetheless, I feel that your reporter, or at least an editor should have taken more care...
...swear that a germ of veritas doesn't lurk in Goldhagen's screed. Let truth and falsehood grapple, said Milton--let former student and present professor debate at some forum in Cambridge what Jews did or didn't do after the Holocaust...