Word: greeting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...give me your MTV logoed North Face parka, and I'll cough up a nickel for your disadvantaged friend." No deal. The line again shuffles forward. We bid Judd Hirsch adieu and greet the cast next door...
McMahon has recently become a villainouscharacter in the "drama" of WWF wrestling. Sincetaking on this evil persona, this chant is whatfans greet him with in arenas across the country...
...call "over-committed"-to classes, to student organizations, to jobs, to everything. But in reality we are more often under-committed, investing too little in our friends and our selves. One of the most common misconceptions around here is that extracurricular activities are important and essential, but stopping to greet a friend on the street is optional. It amounts to an enormously distorted lens through which students determine what's worth doing...
...this context that we greet Gaypril, Harvard's gay pride month. Harvard's relatively liberal atmosphere has the tendency to lull gay men and lesbians (and other minorities) into a false sense of security, and as a result, our pride month, like all elements of activism, is relatively muted here. At the same time, if last night's debate over the ROTC is any indication, many will see provocative posters or hear of gay pride events and shake their heads, annoyed at having the homosexual agenda foisted on them by an ultra-liberal elite...
...Harvard, the glorification of what Ralph Waldo Emerson calls the "self-helping man" whom "all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire," blinds us to individual weakness. According to UHS, 15 percent of undergraduates use mental health services at least once during their college years. According to the National Institutes of Mental Health, about 25 percent of all women and ten percent of all men will suffer from depression. But bravado makes us unwilling to acknowledge that. Consequently, students becomes less willing to share personal failures and listeners less willing to accept them...