Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...often bemoaned the fact that many Harvard women are reluctant to assert themselves on the topic of sexual equality. The women's groups are all very careful to avoid using that dirty word, feminism. Being feminist hasn't been encouraged or rewarded for many years now. Yet in the ensuing backlash, the best thing about feminism, namely, female dialogue, has fallen by the way-side...
Despite eagerness to witness student lives inaction, most juniors suggest that parents waituntil after noon to show up unannounced in orderto avoid the trauma of seeing their offspringsleep the day away. One junior added that midnightis a good time for parents to leave because"people start coming over then...
Like many people on campus, I have been instructed almost since birth to avoid dangerous situations. I don't walk in alleyways by myself, or travel around at two in the morning, or go with strangers into isolated areas. None of this advice however, designed for use against a hypothetical, psychopathic, stranger rapist, protected me from the brilliant, popular, future Ivy League student I thought was my friend...
Indeed, the wrestlers have prepared long and hard for this. After defeating Brown two weeks ago, they have tapered their training in order to avoid injury and to go in as prepared as possible...
...people who get into Harvard... don't have as much time to play and experiment in relationships." Because of their inexperience, these students fear romance because they are facing, for the first time, potential failure in the dating scene. In response to these fears, some students choose to avoid romance altogether...