Word: winthrops
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...introduction, FitzGerald recalls that America was founded by visionaries such as John Winthrop, who told his Puritan followers that they were creating a city on a hill and that the eyes of the world would thus be upon them. "The remarkable thing," FitzGerald concludes, "was that four centuries later Americans were still self-consciously building cities on a hill." And thanks to her, we are able ourselves to view them...
...other words, only the people who really wanted to live in Dunster or Mather would make it their second choice. Similarly, people who really want to live in Eliot would be able to make Winthrop or Kirkland their real second-choice. Unscientific polls by The Crimson would not be unnecessary; nobody would have to try to second-guess the popularity of a house. Nobody would list a house that was really his ninth choice as his second choice...
...Winthrop House...
...public Gareth (Bob Toner) and his private side (Kevin Walker) surmount the demands of the difficult premise of the Winthrop House show, a drama-comedy written by Brian Friel. The public Gareth--Gar for short--is a quiet, unemotional guy who wonders whether his father will miss him when he leaves Ireland for Philadelphia. He was too shy to ask Senator Doogan (John Claflin) for the hand of his daughter (Laura Uyterhoeven). Now she's married to someone else...
...Embarrassing, but funny" said John P. Siracuse '87 of the strip-a-gram his roommates sent him for his 22nd birthday. Siracuse, who was attending a formal dinner in the Winthrop House Junior Common room when the stripper entered, said he was very surprised when the unfamiliar woman walked up to his table...