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...current economic climate. Millions of people across the country and around the world already fear for their job security, and, as the university tightens its budget, Harvard employees are no exception. Although fear of unemployment is in many ways inevitable in this depression, no one should feel that their identity??sexual, political, religious, or otherwise—must remain closeted in order to protect their job. We cannot allow this archaic atmosphere of discrimination to exist in the Harvard community, especially not during this critical period of economic turmoil...
...surround you, who hold you in a siege like a live castle, whose walls, alas, are pathetically weak.”In this city of walking dead, Vargalas endures a lone struggle for survival. This struggle is manifested in a search for vital signs of Lithuanian identity??a quest that’s fruitless until Vargalas stumbles headfirst into a live pulse: Lolita, the determinedly unchaste daughter of a brutal KGB colonel. In typical tragic fashion, a love story unfolds between the pair, but it becomes clear that Lolita is, like the rest of Lithuania, damaged goods?...
...recurring theme throughout the book, suturing the stories to one another and focusing the reader’s attention on the characters’ simultaneous divergence and cohesion of experience. All of Smith’s characters share a common search for a sense of identity??a sense which can only be arrived at by a reflection on the past. Smith’s stories of life’s everyday occurrences are at once both introspective and universal. Her characters remain totally ambiguous—they are roles in which readers are free to cast themselves...
...distinct youth culture. No longer under the watchful eyes of parents, adolescents were able to structure their social lives among their peers by joining fraternities. For many students, away from the comfort of home for the first time, this peer society offered the reassurance of one’s identity??reassurance through conformity. The increasing prosperity and consumption of the period made it easier for students to engage in constantly changing fashion fads, and by doing so, one could openly express his allegiance to this elitist, collegiate culture. Collegiate manners and styles were clearly defined, as a November...
...Blood On The Tracks,” or “Blonde On Blonde.” But for the serious Dylan fan, the Bootleg Series itself is not only a gift—it’s a necessity.If we search for Dylan’s identity??in his evolving musical tableau, in his baffling lyrics, in his myriad influences or his harebrained interviews—we can never get closer to the mark than the knowledge that he is a man that seeks to please himself first. The Bootleg Series documents songs not only as they...