Word: herrick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have to agree with the statement made by Georgia Herrick: "I was trying to prove something to myself, a reaffirmation of the liberal beliefs I had been brought up under." It seems to me that usually this is the reason why a Negro dates a white, or the other way around. Few couples are ready to cope with the problems of interracial dating. They are, whether they admit it or not, bound by society's taboos, and these rules do not allow them the openness needed for a good relationship...
...pressures from within and without must at times seem all but over whelming to mixed couples, and the danger of emotional damage can be considerable. Georgia Herrick, 26, an editorial assistant in Manhattan, blames herself for the breakup of her own six-months'-love affair with a Negro. "In the beginning," she said, "I was trying to prove something to myself, a reaffirmation of the liberal beliefs I had been brought up under." The beliefs didn't carry her far enough. The one time that her black beau took her to a Negro hangout, she found "the language...
They were married after his junior year. He graduated summa cum laude in English, after turning in a thesis titled "Non-Horatian Elements in Robert Herrick's Imitations and Echoes of Horace." It was a splendid college career, but in retrospect, Updike feels that Harvard somehow sapped him of some vague, irreplaceable vitality. "I feel in some obscure way ashamed of the Harvard years. They were a betrayal of my high school years, really. Harvard, in exchange for a great deal of work, made me a civilized man. It's somehow painful...
...decided to enter the second eight, coached by Robert F. Herrick '90, captain and stroke of the 1889 crew...
...Herrick took them to Philladelphia to race on the Schuykill River. Leverett Saltonstall later would tell the CRIMSON that this experience was the turning point in their preparations: the Harvards won two races at the same distance they would race on the Thames...