Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...newly-arrived, newly-shorn"knobs" who lined up are women. By 6:30 the four women and their classmates had marched off to a breakfast of eggs, bacon, hashbrowns, and toast followed by a motivational speech from senior Bryant Butler, the head of the Corps of Cadets. "A lone wolf does not make it here.," he told the assembled cadets. "No matter how tough it gets, you rely on each other." Last year, cadet Shannon Faulkner began "hell week" after a federal court order forced open the Citadel's gates for her, but dropped out by weeks end, citing exhaustion...
When former Cambridge mayor Alice K. Wolf emphasized the importance of a "grassroots" effort in fighting crime, there were actually few civilians in attendance, and when participants joined hands across the bridge, their chain only stretched across about 60 or 70 feet of the bridge, reaching neither shore...
Other notables making appearances were City Councillors Timothy J. Toomey, Michael A. Sullivan and Kathleen L. Born as well as former mayors Kenneth E. Reeves '72 and Alice K. Wolf. Alfred E. Vellucci, who as mayor helped host the first Harvard Senior Picnic in 1975, was also in attendance...
...Wolf's talk was reserved for answering questions...
...predictor of self-esteem is self perception of our physical appearance." In pursuit of her answer, Friday ricochets among personal, sociological and psychological investigation. Ultimately, however, her goal is not so much to undermine the current ruling troika of "looks/beauty/appearance" as to confront the obsession head on. Unlike Naomi Wolf, who in her 1992 book, The Beauty Myth, portrayed the elevation of beauty as manipulative and ultimately sadistic, Friday reaches older, muddier and much more happily self-satisfied conclusions. In the end, she isn't angry at the power of beauty, and she seems to have come to terms with...