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According to Susan R. Estrich, Dukakis’s campaign manager in 1988, the Willie Horton scandal then became a “surrogate for the question of values” in the election, an instrument for determining whether one was “on the side of the criminal or the victim of the crime...

Author: By James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Michael S. Dukakis | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...essence, Jim is a musician who has the ability both to play and to sculpt his instrument, and the students in the choirs are the most essential part of that instrument...

Author: By Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jameson Marvin | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

Though his knack for blocking and killing the volleyball are recent discoveries, Glootz developed a love for music at a young age. He admits that the piano is his primary instrument, but he took his love of the accordion to a high level, winning a U-17 national title in the instrument at a ripe...

Author: By Catherine E. Coppinger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Renaissance Man Fills in for Crimson | 4/21/2010 | See Source »

...It’s not a common instrument, especially in America,” he continued. “So I sometimes just like to take it out, have a good time, and make some people happy...

Author: By Catherine E. Coppinger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Renaissance Man Fills in for Crimson | 4/21/2010 | See Source »

...body is something other than herself.” Although masculinity coincided with the for-itself—that freedom which makes one uniquely human—femininity coincided with the in-itself—the inhuman or object-like. Man encountered the body as pure instrument, able to be dominated and controlled; woman, by contrast, experienced her body as an inscrutable burden. Biological givens may have had no meaning outside that which society conferred on them, but they still had an objective reality: In Beauvoir’s understanding, they placed real constraints on the projects that women could...

Author: By Courtney A. Fiske | Title: Situating Sex | 4/20/2010 | See Source »

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