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...feel lucky," said Dunster House ChairmanFernando R. Laguarda '88, who will attend a dinnerwith Mailer...
...Henry Rosovsky, turned down the presidency of Yale in 1977 because he had important work to do at Harvard. It is the university where a student named Henry Thoreau pronounced himself bored, but where such creative successors as T.S. Eliot, Eugene O'Neill, Philip Johnson, Leonard Bernstein and Norman Mailer found inspiration...
...students (66%) than any other university. In fact, notes James Miller, director of financial aids, "50% of the students wouldn't see the front door if it weren't for financial aid." The struggle is not so severe for that blessed crew known as "legacies" -- youngsters like Michael Mailer, son of Norman, and Caroline Kennedy, daughter of J.F.K. -- with family members who went to Harvard. At least one in three of these slides under the rope, in contrast to one in six among ordinary applicants...
Asked if he has a job, Mauri has been replying that he does "occasional work" but is currently unemployed. Again, not exactly. For some 25 years he has worked for the New York Times as a substitute mailer, a job that could earn him $35,000 annually if he filled five shifts a week; a shop steward at the Times says Mauri could easily do so. "If anything," says Charles Perkins, assistant commissioner for public affairs for New York City's housing department, "Mauri is a beneficiary of the system rather than a victim of the system...
...relationships become "Love Story," allwriters are Norman Mailer, George Plimpton, orT.S. Eliot, all politicians are FDR, allsocialites are Edie Sedgewick, all academics areJohn Kenneth Galbraith--brilliant, savvy, sexy,worthy of a bad Harvard novel. In the same vein,all depressions become suicidal, and happinessresembles a Soma Holiday...