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...July of 1765 one of Queen Charlotte's maids of honor, the Honorable Deborah Chetwynd, induced her Majesty to order a cream service from Wedgwood. Josiah Wedgwood, founder of the pottery empire, executed his first royal order with exacting care, shepherding the entire proceeding, including the inlay of the glad and the floral illumination of the borders. During his early schooldays, while crossing the moors at Newcastle, Josiah had delighted in the wild-flowers that sprouted forth from the deserted landscape and he later incorporated these observations into his pottery designs. All of his artistry and imagination greatly satisfied...
...glad, five years after the fact, that I'd never put much stock in the man as a kid. Next to Hemingway and Conrad, he was nothing. The closest the poor guy would ever come to Hemingway was his first name. The animals, I had been convinced from the age of nine, were probably fake anyway. Still, I always wanted to go on safari even if it was only a defensive maneuver. I figured if things got worse than they had ever been, I would grab a steamer to Kenya and go out fighting. I would either emerge from...
...dropped by the house one night. It was August 1, and it was 1960. There was my mother. She was very pleased to see me. And she said, 'I'm so glad you came, because tomorrow I'm going into the hospital.' And I said: 'What's wrong Mama?' And she said, 'Well, I'm not feeling well. I saw my doctor and I told him there's something wrong.' He had been treating her, the doctor, for a gall bladder for five years. She was taking Pepto-Bismol. And then she said, 'But I said...
...GLAD Day, as it turned out, had a hidden bonus that its organizers had not expected. More than raising the "awareness" of the general Harvard community, it reassured and brought out many once-fearful gay students on campus. "GLAD Day showed the closeted gay people there were a lot of gay people out here." Flaherty says. It also clued in non-gays to the sheer number of gays on campus. And, as many students suddenly became aware that their friends were gay, they were less cavalier about telling what Schatz calls "fag jokes." After GLAD Day, GOOD organizers could...
...GLAD Day set the stage for a political crusade the following year by setting out the stereotypes and prejudices that most uninformed non-gays hold, and then gently knocking them down. Leslie Gladsjo '84, co-chair of GOOD this year, says that the gay rights movement, both nationally and at Harvard, is in the same stage as the civil rights movement in the early 60s. "We are at that very first step where we can't get people to listen to us unless they acknowledge our existence," Gladsjo says. "For that reason, GLAD is oriented toward awareness, rather than toward...