Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comparable tone of Harvard Yard sneering surfaces whenever Schlesinger seems to feel that Kennedy was threatened. The effect is often tasteless. Staging a counterattack on one of Bobby's anti-Viet Nam War speeches, the Johnson White House "exhumed," as Schlesinger has it, James A. Farley, a distinguished elder of the Democratic Party. Throughout, R.F.K.'s opponents are made to look asinine or worse. Hubert Humphrey "chirruped." On the hustings in 1968, Kennedy is consistently praised for his ability to rouse mass audiences to a pitch of righteous frenzy; Lyndon Johnson, meanwhile, "pounded the podium and shouted about...
...Play touch football in the Yard. If you have a TV, watch the baseball Game of the Week (NBC is Channel 4 around here). Drink beer and hang out. Meet people...
...Opening Exercises, in the Yard. This is the only mandatory meeting the Class of '82 will have until commencement, which is a long way off. But don't worry, they don't take attendance, although roving bands of Doberman Pinschers patrol the dorms to ensure a good turnout. Actually, a friend of mine skipped this meeting and met the woman he will probably marry, but this is an extreme example...
...they all take place at various times throught the week. An unavoidable necessity, unless you're a non-science type who already placed out of the language requirement. In which case you ought to spend time exploring Cambridge and Boston, or, failing that, smoking dope/playing catch in the Yard...
...harbinger--this one of all the dull lectures you will attend. We recommend a pass on this one. You'd be better off doing what we've told you to do every other night so far, that is, party, flip through the course catalogue, smoke dope/play catch in the Yard...