Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group had to write the names and addresses of the families to visit in code and memorized them in order to avoid being refused entry into the country, said Joy Sobeck '86. The group, divided into three pairs, visited about 30 families in all, she said...
Practically everyone thinks he has a novel within him, if only there were time to get it down on paper. Mercifully, most would-be authors never get beyond the stage of boring friends, acquaintances and airplane seatmates. Of those who do write, rather than just talking about it, few possess the tale teller's gift, the capacity to invent or recall events in a way that makes them seem significant to outsiders. Fewer still have the discipline to master a new craft. But four worthy current novels, all thrillers or mysteries, display just such painstaking effort by men better known...
...Wednesday, April 2nd, demonstrators struck Nicaraguan contra Jorge Rosales in the face with a thrown bottle. This violence, combined with loud chanting, prohibited him from speaking before a Harvard audience. I write this letter to elaborate on an aspect of the incident that has received little press attention--the utterly self-defeating nature of the protest. The demonstrators cheered and paraded, patting themselves on the back after driving the speaker from the stage. It was much like a man celebrating his own death sentence. In the excitement of the moment no one seemed to realize that they had just thrown...
Accidents occur in the best of regulated families and notably also in rather evidently unregulated ones such as Harvard's. Thus the proposed award for distinguished public service to Mr. Edwin Meese III. But I do not write to join in the present storm of criticism, tempting as that may be. The problem now, in a popular Washington phrase of our day, is damage control. That cannot be achieved by escape, as was so brilliantly accomplished in the matter of a degree for President Ronald Reagan. Mitigation is now the best hope. To this end I suggest that the wording...
...seems to be in response to an unspoken, unmediated desire on our part that Barthes accedes to this self demystification, a sublimated egotism. It grates on the nerves: "little by little I recognize in myself a growing desire for readability...I want the texts I write to be readable, too...." But the air of gratuitousness embellished with sincerity leads us to suspect that we are imprisoned in a confessional--on the wrong side of the screen--listening with horror and fascination to the "powerful and pathetic stream" of Barthes' language...