Word: personalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fascination with so-called primitive people. He wonders, in particular, about evidence that the besieged Machiguengas, dispersed into small groups by enemies and harsh conditions, retain their sense of community through a storyteller who travels wherever listeners can be found, recounting tribal legends, history and gossip. Such a person, the determined writer concludes, amounts to "tangible proof that storytelling can be something more than mere entertainment...
...show for everybody, black and white. "I'm out to bring the ghetto to the suburbs and the suburbs to the ghetto. I want ((rapper)) Tone-Loc and Major Ferguson, Fergie's dad, on the same couch. Most white people have never been to a party at a black person's house. I hope they say, 'This one looks nice -- maybe...
Maybe it's a jinx. There must be some reason the lowly Elis are 8-1-2 at home against the Crimson since the Bicentennial. Some Harvard-affiliated person somewhere must have said or done something really horrible to incur the wrath of the Connecticut sports gods. Home ice advantage is one thing, but the Elis have owned the Crimson...
...League kind of student, and I don't get into the social atmosphere as much as some people here," he says. "I can't say that I love the school, but I can say without question that I love every person in the hockey program, every player and every coach. I'd go through a wall for any oneof them. I think a lot of us feel that way. And Ithink that's why we were so successful last year...
Although Jewett declined to comment on individual applicants, he said he thought a connection with the Harvard-Radcliffe community would be valuable to the eventual winner of the post. "A person without experience or familiarity would be at some disadvantage [in the selection process]." But he added that the successful candidate would not necessarily be a Harvard-Radcliffe graduate, saying, "There are a number of ways a person might have gotten that contact...