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When the meeting was opened for questions, this reporter asked why the club had not been named the Harvard-Radcliffe Republican Action Council. Anne W. Walker '96, the lone woman at the meeting, expressed a desire to change the name accordingly, whereupon Whitney D. Pidot '96 contested that such action was unnecessary. Erskine added, "If you ask a woman student where she goes to school, she says Harvard University, not Radcliffe College." (Fred A. Decaro '93 added, "this is a policy issue and we shouldn't discuss...
...blacks and whites, the whites in the state had a school for nursing while the blacks had none. The politician told Marshall that he could get the state to build a school for blacks, but that Marshall had to allow the politician to use his own methods. Marshall agreed, whereupon the politician immediately called a press conference and announced that he had just witnessed a most sickening spectacle: a white female nurse washing the back of a black man. The politician then demanded that the state legislature immediately appropriate money for "a nigger school" so that this sort of thing...
...miracle when the heart of a man newly dead is lifted from his chest and installed in another man who is dying -- whereupon the heart comes throbbing to life in the chest of the second man, and he walks away and lives on for years? The event is repeated every day on medical assembly lines around the world. What is surgical plumbing today would have been a biblical masterpiece of wonder. Even commonplace achievements of technology, like telephones, fax machines, television, communications satellites and computers, suffuse the earth with a sort of preternatural glow. The people of the industrialized world...
...amount of lighting at night in the yard as well as in the Cambridge Common? David Battat '91 met with the Cambridge City Council a few years ago and took several council members around the Common one night to show them just how dark and unsafe it actually was, whereupon the city of Cambridge installed new lighting everywhere and razed all the bushes where muggers could hide...
...runs, the novelist has taken the plunge again. Beast (Random House; 350 pages; $21) features tentacles rather than mandibles. Otherwise it is the familiar mixture: lethal creature, relentless pursuers and vast quantities of saline solution. When waters off Bermuda become the killing grounds of a giant squid, tourism collapses. Whereupon an Ahabian fisherman, Whip Darling, clambers into a submarine and leads the hunt. All the old ingredients are present, from aqua horror ("the creature moved toward the unnatural thing") to Moby Dick denouement (" 'Here!' he shouted, and he drove the saw deep into the yawning beak"). In between are adrenal...