Word: weres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"In some places, there were people lining up to sign the petitions," said Dorothy M. Lohmann, public information coordinator for the Planned Parenthood Committee, which originally sponsored the petition.
Hay admits that Eliot believed in the idea of cultural uniformity and that he felt "some Jews" fought counter to this ideal. But she also defends the expatriate poet as "anti a great many things" and for whom, she says, Jews were not particularly important as an object of scorn...
Baumel, Wayne Koestenbaum '80, Jacqueline F. Osherow '78 and Cynthia Zarin '81 were among the 12 artists invited by Penelope Laurans, Fitzgerald's widow, to participate last year in a reading of the works of those who had studied under her late husband.
Although members of the newest generation say they could not avoid feeling that they were part of a grand tradition of Harvard poets when they studied here, the prominence of their teachers often put them at a distance in the classroom.
Many of them say they were launched into the real world of publishing from the editorial boards of The Harvard Advocate and Padan Aram, where Zarin says she sometimes found it even harder to get her work published than she has outside of Harvard.