Word: whole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Halloween. That whole year seemed like Halloween. Halloween brought on the worst outbreak of freshman parties since freshman week. And the costume parties continued all year long...
...call me that. You fight me, pig," Little Joe retorted, obviously taking the whole incident far more seriously than his enemies. "You meet me here at midnight and I'll beat the shit out of you, you understand? Little Joe ordered, and the men across from him agreed with amused nods...
...world beyond Harvard Yard. Your behavior changes: your gaze becomes glazed like the Wild Man of Borneo, your feet almost automatically head for Lamont Library, you don't think you have even a few moments to spare to run to the Coop or see friends, and your whole world revolves around the Union and the Science Center. It's entirely possible to wake up on a Monday and realize that, for the past four days, you have been working so feverishly you had no idea whether it was day or night, and all that time is merely a monochromatic blur...
...make matters worse, The Harvard Mystique is largely derivative. Lopez lifts stuff from every popular magazine he can lay his hands on. From Esquire, he steals whole descriptive passages about the atmosphere of the Harvard Business School. From the Crimson he steals sensational stuff that no respectable author would steal. Lopez rehashes recent controversies that have plagued Harvard in recent years--the fight over genetic determination and I.Q., the University's connection with the Central Intelligence Agency, the fight over the relocation of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library. It's all been said before--and much better...
...course as a whole, and especially the lectures, need some working on. One good reform would be to replace some of Fisher's lectures after the first month-and-a-half of the course (when the merits of the tools become dubious) with more section meetings, where the tools could be applied and evaluated in simulations. Moreover, in the lectures that are kept, Fisher should invite more guest speakers. Last year, the former mayor of Jerusalem visited the class...