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King likes to use a romantic analogy to show why Harvard benefits from his laison work. He recalls. "In high school, one of the more attractive young ladies didn't have a date for the prom. Everybody assumed she already had about 10 offers, so nobody saked her out"." What Harvard can do best to improve state relations, he concludes, is to "let them know that we are here and that we are interested...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Harvard and the State: Closer Bedfellows | 6/10/1982 | See Source »

...Boyum and slapping themselves into consciousness just enough to beat Dartmouth 8-1. Harvard demonstrated yet again that the slide through the part of the season after a loss to Princeton is about like going through two weeks of clear skin after having to pop a facial pimple on prom night...

Author: By John Rippey, | Title: Duffy Back In Line-Up; Squash Team Tops Green | 2/25/1982 | See Source »

...continued his running career with spring track, until junior year when he was kicked off the track team because he went to a prom instead of a meet...

Author: By Decky Martman, | Title: Scott Murrer | 2/18/1982 | See Source »

...What a great feeling!" the pioneer "Scat" or nonsense syllable singer, said after accepting the award Fitzgerald who spent part of her career with the Duke Ellington band said that she had once played at a Harvard prom adding "Who would have ever thought I'd be back to receive an award--it's been a long time this has made up for all the time...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: Singer Ella Fitzgerald Honored As Pudding Woman of Year | 2/18/1982 | See Source »

...Trouble with Harry. But the most passionate Brian De Palma-and maybe the real one-is the child of Vertigo, Hitchcock's essay on the fatal power of obsessive love. In plot skeleton and flesh tones, De Palma's Obsession was a remake of Vertigo, and the prom scene in Carrie suffused its heroine in a mood of crimson romanticism. Blow Out, for all its borrowings from political and cinematic fact and fancy, is one more story of an obsessive idealist lost in a lush forest of intrigue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bad Crash | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

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