Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...call Menu Man at 4:30 a.m. and never fear waking and annoying him. He'll speak to me with love, truth and most of all, constancy. 24-7. In the tumult and uncertainly of my first year at Harvard, Menu Man is my rock. A source of unerring wisdom. The continuum of His tradition reassures me that the housing lottery and concentration decisions are transitory. Boyfriends, come and go, but Menu Man is for always. (He is the first person I call after returning to Harvard from breaks and intersession...
...knew Katharine Hepburn help the wisdom of the world when she said that men and women should never live together, but simply visit occasionally...
Among Chrysler's top managers, some of whom question the wisdom of decisions Iacocca made for the company when he ran it, there is grumbling now that their former boss, susceptible to Kerkorian's unwholesome charms, is putting the company in jeopardy to satisfy his own ambition. "They are shocked and pissed,'' says one board member. "It's '80s greed vs. '90s forward-thinking management. Iacocca's involvement is really getting under people's skin.'' Certainly there's a prospect of money in the deal for him. For all his wealth-$200 million at last estimate-Iacocca has never been...
Within the next few weeks Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 is expected to make a ruling on the issue of House randomization. The conventional wisdom now is that he will decide to implement a plan of full randomization of blocking groups into houses and take away one of the few ways in which we can define our college experience...
Jefferson in Paris brings this bit of vulgar wisdom back to mind. Regrettably so, for it is the work of that redoubtable trio consisting of producer Ismail Merchant, director James Ivory and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. With films like Howards End and Remains of the Day, they have, almost alone, kept alive what in Cohn's day was one of Hollywood's more agreeable genres: the handsomely made, well-acted literary-historical drama. These movies reflected the cultural aspirations of producers like Irving Thalberg and David O. Selznick while serving the needs of that portion of the audience not enamored...