Word: greek
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University in the 1950s (a working-class boy, he paid his way through school with a variety of jobs, including a stint as a nightclub bouncer), Foster loved utilitarian buildings: barns, factories, windmills. He did measured drawings of them when other students were drawing buildings they had never seen: Greek temples, Palladian villas. Foster would learn from those too, but his immersion in common language and use translates into a feeling of rightness, which works as completely in small structures as in large. A fine example of the former is the entrances to the subway system he designed for Bilbao...
Those are just the movie references. The Wachowskis, both dropouts from good colleges (Larry from Bard, Andy from Emerson), want to weld classic lit, hallucinogenic imagery and a wild world of philosophical surmises to pop culture. The Bible meets Batman; Lewis Carroll collides with William Gibson; Greek and geek mythology bump and run. Hell, you may find string theory in The Matrix...
...problem I see with fraternities and sororities is that the same clique mentality [associated with final clubs] is there," says Undergraduate Council Vice-President Kamil E. Redmond'00. "We talk about community here all the time. Rather than talking about a Greek system, I think we need to talk about opening up that community...
Envisioning their ideal campus social scene, students proposed a variety of ideas, but few believe that Harvard needs social catalysts that are institutions at other campuses, like a university-supported Greek system...
...problem I see with fraternities and sororities is that the same clique mentality [associated with final clubs] is there," says Undergraduate Council Vice-President Kamil E. Redmond '00. "We talk about community here all the time. Rather than talking about a Greek system, I think we need to talk about opening up that community...