Word: place
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even a professional cast would have difficulty infusing emotion into heavy-handed lines like, "Can it be possible I have to die so suddenly? So young to go under the obscure, cold, rotting, wormy ground! To be nailed down into a narrow place; to see no more sweet sunshine; hear no more blithe voice of living thing; muse not again upon familiar thoughts, sad, yet thus lost--How fearful! to be nothing...
Change in house assignment must take place now--on that, most informed College members agree. House stereotypes that are persistently repellent to large segments of first-year and upperclass students--athleticism, elitism or bohemianism--threaten to leave all students under-educated...
...best moment, the staff concludes, "Segregation, voluntary or involuntary, accentuates differences and breeds intolerance." This is vitally, damnably true. But exaggeration or misinterpretation of the degree of this segregation risks a blind, reflexive response. The place for correcting very human, very social failings, lies within students themselves. Holding otherwise risks the accusation of paternalism, cynicism and shortsightedness...
Harvard ought to be a place where people from all backgrounds and of all abilities get to know each other. And the residential houses, the proverbial "microcosms of the University," should extend that much touted diversity to the living environment...
...think that fear of being raped is different than fear of being beaten up," Zellweger says. "You could look at rape as the systematic subjugation of women, to keep them in their place, keep them afraid, keep them running scared...