Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Tenured Professor, despite its excesses and factual inaccuracies (Galbraith at one point has Harvard investing $200 million while Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu sits on its Board of Overseers), resonates with a feeling of reality. Galbraith, after all, realizes how things work--he understands America's economy; he perceives its societally-imposed norms; and he knows Harvard. This realistic overcast to the sage professor's satire is disturbing, because when all is said and done, his comedy is biting, and its tone is black...
With this weekend's Eastern Championships at West Point approaching on the horizon, the Harvard men's swimming team went through some unexpectedly rough waters last weekend...
David Plotz had an excellent point to make in his February 5 opinion piece titled "Politically Correct' Thought Control." PC ideology, as a prescriptive thought process that turns students into self-righteous automatons, is as repulsive and abhorrent to the conscious and thinking individual as reactionary conservatism or his own self-defined "PW" (politically wrong) ideology. Unfortunately, Plotz's cry of "PC totalitarianism" reads as an attempt to shut up the voice of traditionally oppressed groups with accusations of reverse discrimination. Systematically bombasting the grievances of the underclass, his is a clever and insidious tactic which, like...
Sophomore Albert Chang turned in one of the gutsier performances of the day, saving a match point, before capturing a three-set victory at number-five singles. Chang's match gave the Crimson a chance heading into the doubles competition...
...exhibit on the subject of sexual desire must be particularly strong in order to succeed. The Triptych assortment almost masters this difficult task, largely thanks to the compelling photography it features. But it falls apart at the edges--enough that at some junctures we ask ourselves, "What is the point of these pieces?" That is a fatal question to ask in any exhibit...