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...attended a small public high school that was like one of those cheap '80s movies with a homecoming queen and a big parade. I was homecoming queen. My freshman year. And then I withdrew from the social scene. I was a competitive ice skater for 14 years and so I didn't spend any time in town. I'll go back now and see that there's no one on the streets and then find out the entire town is at the high school for the huge basketball tournament...
...arts kind of deflowered in a way during the 80s," he said...
Brennan also shared an anecdote that dated from his days on the campaign trail with Duehay in the late '80s. Brennan sent Duehay canvassing through Cambridge with a volunteer named Jane Lewis...
They cite the massive overcrowding of House events like the Adams' Masquerade and the Leverett's '80s Dance as evidence that students want and need more social options. Their solution is to have council-sponsored events for first-years every other weekend, and one additional event per year in each House...
...struggle with cancer is symbolic of the waning force of humanism. Until the 90s, humanism was the primary discourse of white opposition to apartheid. But the tenuous hope Coetzee expresses in Age of Iron for the survival of humanism despite the violence of South Africas transitional years (the late 80s and early 90s) seems to have been snuffed out in Disgrace. The novel is set in the current phase of the countrys violent and troubled history. On the one hand, it is a phase characterized by criminal brutality on the part of former victims of apartheid, and on the other...