Word: candidates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...through the pages and remember your Harvard years. You can sit your grandchildren on your knees, point to your face in the varsity soccer picture and reminisce about the day you saved by booting in the tie-breaking goal. Or you can grin and sigh as you find a candid shot of your old roommates beaning each other with rotten vegetables in the Adams House Raft Race...
Well, maybe extracurriculars, concentrations and sports really aren't the necessary memories. Candid snapshots are also wonderful mnemonic devices...
Only two parts of Great Good Fortune are redeeming at all. The first is the introduction, where Vigeland has a surprisingly candid conversation with Nathan M. Pusey '28, the president of Harvard who called in the Staties to smash the heads of several of Vigeland's classmates when they took over University Hall in 1969. Looking back at those years, Pusey lets down his guard enough to say that his real disappointment was not with the radicals but with the faculty, who failed to stand up to them: "I've never said this to anyone but my wife," Pusey admits...
During the past year Mikhail Gorbachev has attempted to build an image of a new style of Moscow ruler--responsible, candid and sophisticated. Yet today's Soviet leadership looked very much like those of the past. Soviet credibility in Western Europe, which had been a target of much of the new diplomatic offensive, has been particularly damaged. Gorbachev's goal of taking up the mantle of the recognized champion of a nuclear-free world has certainly been set back. Last Tuesday, when a Soviet diplomat was trying to elicit West German help with the accident cleanup while providing as little...
...columnists report that Charlotte Lewis, 18, once linked with Polanski, is now seeing Ballet Star Mikhail Baryshnikov, but the lady describes both men as "just good friends." Sorry, folks, a script it's not. She says that it is all true, and why not believe her? Lewis is delightfully candid and seemingly unaffected by her promising career. "I don't think I knew anything about the business," she says sweetly. "I still...