Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan tax breaks weighted in favor of the rich, the cuts in social welfare programs, the statistics on the growing inequality of income distribution in the U.S. and the routine tales of Wall Street corruption defined, for many Americans, the ethos of the 1980s...
...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...
Furthermore, the editors seem to assume that Harvard students confine their social and extracurricular lives to the houses in which they live. Of course houses play a significant role in the lives of students. But we can and do interact with people outside our assigned houses--in classes, clubs, and other houses...
Lowell House Jennifer L. Bader English Ellen Lebowitz Social Studies Amy J. Merritt Psychology...
North House Tiger L. Lee Biology Jennifer L. Schuessler Literature Suzanne E. Wachsstock Social Studies...