Word: winterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...community in a negative and at times rather ugly sense, bringing to the surface a kind of Harvard snobbery that either hurts or greatly amuses those others who come to Cambridge looking for Harvard. At the beginning of last summer, some clever entrepreneur sold "I Go Here in the Winter" buttons to those who could furnish appropriate proof, but there are subtler ways--an abbreviation dropped here, a bit of history recalled there, a nickname spoken ever so casually in the Yard--to make the point, and everyone becomes adept at the game...
...them tease their hair, wear too much makeup, speak in raucous Brooklyn accents, or sport tight Harvard sweat-shirts. But you notice those. "You don't realize how attached you are to this place," a Harvard junior explained, "until you see it being raped." A Cliffie commented, "During the winter you share Cambridge with 5000 of your own kind, so you don't feel terribly close to it. But in the summer you're one of the happy few fighting off the invaders...
...this subsidy can only go towards PBH's fixed expenses -- the basic House operations and the salaries of part-time consultants in the winter and not towards the cost of expanding its programs...
...outside projects, Volunteer Teachers for Africa and the American Indian Project, have budgets totaling $33,496. Unlike the local summer and winter committees, the members of the outside projects must raise all their own money. So far they have collected less than half...
SPAIN is still a bargain, overcrowded along the Costa Brava and jam-packed in Madrid ("Its season used to be winter," reports Fielding. "Now it is difficult to get hotel accommodations any time. Madrid is going crazy"). Favored this year by the rich and beautiful people: Sotogrande del Guadiaro on the Costa del Sol, a region that boasts 3,200 acres overlooking the Rock of Gibraltar, several fine hotels, two golf courses and fine swimming. Equally In: nearby Marbella (the Duke and Duchess of Windsor will be there...