Word: forbiddingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, some college administrators at Harvard and beyond say they have mixed feelings about the law. There is a pervading sense that colleges forbid alcohol to students under the age of 21 only because they think it is important that students obey the law, even if they themselves do not agree with...
...professor sees a difference between sexy and manly. An inherently sexy man is boyish, cute, even (God forbid) effete. "A manly man is not sexy. He can be attractive to women only by virtue of his manliness rather than his sexiness," he says. Think John Wayne, not Marcello Mastroianni...
...they think that all women are attracted to them, but simply because the possibility of that attraction is experienced as an invasion of privacy. Some might find those same sensibilities offended if they were compelled to live in close quarters with a homosexual, and the FDO should not peremptorily forbid rooming changes to those who find such a situation untenable...
...staff recognizes this line of argument, and its only response is to suggest that in some far away epoch, those mores that forbid mixed-sex rooming groups may also crumble. We would hardly applaud such a development. We cling to the out-dated belief that there are some rules of propriety that are, in fact, beneficial to society and the moral life of the individual. Those that protect basic considerations of privacy--the right to establish a sphere devoid of any calculations of sexual dynamics--are worthy of preservation...
...Crimson weekend. Especially for students who are working very hard and long hours, and they should keep in mind its not a lost cause if they wait with relationships or with actual sexual encounters until they have more time. To engage in a relationship under pressure, or to, God forbid, engage in any sexual activity under pressure or under the influence of alcohol is terrible. It is not a good idea. So, my advice to the students at Harvard, where I have been, where you work very hard is, number one, if you feel sexual tension...