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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...currently a first-year Harvard Law School student, was already playing the part of a college student named Zelda, Dobie Gillis's persistent but successful suitor. Kuehl, now 35, entered Harvard Law in September, after holding an associate dean's position at UCLA since 1971. A professional of one sort or another since childhood, Kuehl finds school a relief compared to working...
...that scenario materialized, I began to understand that this convention was more a cultural gathering than a political one--Windy City softball when lined up against the hard-hitting major parties. The questions it raised were not questions of pragmatism or power but questions of an almost anthropological sort. Some could be raised by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Just how were the "kooks," like the rich, different from you and me? Were some of these people not 'kooks?' Where did strongly held principles leave off and 'kookism' begin? What were its manifestations...
...plot to destroy the family. Her family is a significant one at this convention--they make up five of the nine members of the Nevada delegation. Soon, it becomes apparent that this is representative of much of the convention--a gathering of family and friends active in this sort of thing since the Wallace crusade of 1968 and resentful of highbrow outsiders from the aborted Reagan campaign...
Japes Emerson '77 began to sense "a vague dissatisfaction with things" during his sophomore year at Harvard, and during the spring of that year, while he was casually pondering taking time off, "a perfect job just sort of fell into my lap." Emerson had been active in theater while at school, performing at the Loeb and in House productions. The perfect job was steady work as an actor with The Proposition, a Cambridge-based improvisational performing troupe. Emerson remained with The Proposition for 15 months, rising, due to a heavy turnover rate, from low man on the totem pole...
...political activity as well as worried about their futures. But even as they gave up the political goals of their immediate predecessors, he says, they felt guilty. "They came after a group of heroes," Whitlock says, "and they knew they weren't going to be anything of the sort...