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...Lesley stereotype seems to have gotten a little bit out of hand. I question how our reputation originally got started. It seems to be due to unfair comparison with "Cliffies." We're considered lower in intelligence, vain, and superficial in appearance and personality. No wonder Lesley is more commonly known as Harvard's bedroom...
...tomorrow." Like most crusaders, De Gaulle was extraordinarily farsighted but sometimes, maddeningly, he deliberately seemed to narrow his vision. From the day he proclaimed a French government in exile during World War II, his imperious manner and fragile sensibilities frequently infuriated his nation's closest allies. In a vain effort to force French leadership on Europe, he twice vetoed Britain's entry into the Continent's first economic cooperative, the Common Market. At home, he stinted on public welfare, in the form of new roads, telephones and a thousand other needed improvements, to pay for symbolically important...
...educated at the best schools -including Harrow in England and Milton Academy near Boston, Harvard and its law school-and at home, where his parents spoke French at the dinner table in a largely vain effort to transfer their facility, and his father often read classics to the children. But if he was immune to another language, he caught his father's parsimony: he still turns off unused lights, and his wife once told an interviewer that "when we were married, all of Ad's friends wanted to bite my wedding ring to see if it was real...
...with a fatuous paragraph saluting Oliver's great contributions to democratic government. It never mentions that two years after his death, the Lord Protector's bones were dug up and hanged at Tyburn. No one knows precisely where Cromwell's remains now lie, and it is vain to search for any vestige of the man in the film that bears his name...
...searches in vain for the peddlers, the panhandlers, the frightened and the lost. (There is one boy, arm-outstretched, that could be taken for a good-natured hitchhiker.) But no such human derailments are allowed in to question the general satisfaction and industriousness that Miss Westman sees as characterizing the Harvard community. Around the turn of the century, writers used to visit the slums of New York in similar fashion; off they would go in search of the picturesque, the strange and the quaint, and finding it, they would entirely ignore the poverty and disease with which it struggled. Miss...