Word: trodden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard's past is the mythic past; the fact that the deans give all incoming first-years a list of every past occupant of their rooms is conducive to such myth-making. We are all walking down well-trodden paths here, no matter how deviant we feel. And so we let others' pasts become our present, others' ambitions our own desires, others' fashions our own trademarks. There's a word for it, somewhere out there--if not in Portuguese, then perhaps there should be one in Harvardese. Joshua DERMAN Joshua Derman '99 is a philosophy concentrator in Quincy House...
...Dunster and Mather residents know it well. Down Athens and through the St. Paul Church parking lot, this well-trodden route cuts the commute to Barker and Lamont by about a minute. (for real emergencies, bypass the lot and cut straight through the church itself. A sprint down the nave and a right at the collection plate can save precious seconds...
Dmitri C. Dover '00, Hensen's roommate, said the incident was "a little scary" given that it took place on a well-lit, well-trodden path. It is the primary route that Mather House residents take toward the Yard...
...black book of a murdered New York City dominatrix.) The principal players in the case were a casting director's dream. Leading Albert's defense was Roy Black, who had made his reputation defending William Kennedy Smith against a rape charge in 1991. The lead prosecutor was Richard E. Trodden, a former high school teacher who has been known to hang pictures of W.B. Yeats, Winston Churchill and Sir Thomas More in his office. And presiding over the case was Judge Benjamin N.A. Kendrick, a triathlete, marathoner, in-line skater and crackerjack darts player...
What was happening inside the courtroom was even more outrageous. In his opening statement, Trodden pointed to Albert and told the jury that "a coarse and crude abuse of a human being took place...at the hands of that man." The prosecutor went on to reveal that Albert liked three-way sex and wore "ladies' underwear." Defense attorney Black in his statement portrayed the accuser as a troubled woman who sought revenge on his client because he was going to marry someone else. Black said she "collects" celebrities, pointing out that she once claimed to have had a "relationship" with...