Word: understands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some professors clearly understand the dynamics of course selection. Irven DeVore, professor of Anthropology, who teaches Nat Sci 19, "Biology and Behavior through the Life Cycle"--a newcomer to the popularity list this year--said he believes the course became popular because "there are a lot of people looking for a less demanding, labless Natural Science course...
...FUNNY thing about Harvard. Just when you think you finally understand how much the Harvard image is exploited in American mythology, the sheer power of the myth reveals itself in yet another way. Just when you think you've finally seen it all--The Paper Chase as a T.V. show--John LeBoutillier '76 turns up in news magazines and signing books at the Coop (even if it was only a couple of copies...
...start to blossom in one way or another. That really threatened my husband." As the experience at Harvard became a central part of the women's lives, some husbands began retaliating. Marguerite's husband accused her of not being a good wife, and she remembers he "couldn't understand why I didn't want to do housework." As the rate of personal growth accelerated for all of these women, old relationships became more and more untenable. Susanna told of being informed by one Radcliffe official of a "Harvard syndrome"--a condition that hits couples with one member at Harvard...
...this rambling, anecdotal frolic, Trillin regales us with stories of domestic spats that have arisen in his family due to his gastronomical ardor. When traveling, he constantly gets into arguments with his wife, Alice, about whether to see the sights or eat. Trillin can't understand Alice's "strange fixation on having only three meals...
...world is more circumscribed than is a Pope's global parish. Remarked Archbishop Manuel Menendez, head of Caritas in Argentina: "The other day on a street in Rome a little boy was asked if he loved the Pope and he said yes. He was asked why. 'Because I understand everything he says.'" As Albino Luciani, the Pope-to-be never studied on a campus outside his home area of northeastern Italy, nor did he gain the international sophistication of a Vatican bureaucrat or diplomat. In the town of Belluno, where he taught for several years, his old friend Archbishop Maffeo...