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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Note to The Perspective: Harvard's most respected--and only--liberal monthly made a valiant attempt at some humor of their own in this month's issue. They even took the opportunity to get in some jibes at Cambridge's only breakfast-table daily. But in the Perspective's "calendar" of events to come this spring, they failed to get the joke quite right. They predicted that The Crimson would change its official form "freshperson" to "freshper-offspring." What they failed to note, however, is The Crimson's official/unofficial term for first-year students: freshperchild...
...Editor's Note...
Most students thought that John Clive was a horrible lecturer. It is true, that his skill did not lie in mass communication with a horde of note-hungry, examination-bound types who take big Core classes (and expect them to be better than TV.). Mentally acute, Clive's diction was soft, often becoming a shambling murmur. Quietly watchful, he had the wisdom to regard undergraduates with a certain sarcasm, and the generosity of spirit to be genuinely helpful--if sought...
These unhappy people are now entering middle age, as is Beattie, 42, and they seem to have learned virtually nothing about anything. Wayne, who "had always been about to create a life for himself," earns a living of sorts by rewiring lamps. He leaves no note when he walks out on his wife Jody and their son Will. Jody drives "almost randomly" to some unnamed Southern town, gets a job as a clerk in a camera store, then becomes a successful wedding photographer. New characters keep appearing for a scene or two, then disappearing, as though this were not Beattie...
...miles to the Tobin Bridge in his new Nissan Maxima and jumped. When police fished him out of the water, he was dressed in blue jeans and a parka, suggesting that he may have picked up a change of clothes after leaving the convenience store. Stuart left a brief note on the passenger seat of his car that said, "I love my family . . . the last four months have been real hell . . . all the allegations have taken all my strength." Later, police searching his hotel room found an ashtray filled with change, the uncalled list of defense attorneys...