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...humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed?Now, let me insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.’s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D’s. Consider C- a failure...
...political pollution of sincere, personal faith. I dissent most strongly from the attempt to argue that one party represents God and that the other doesn't. I dissent from having my faith co-opted and wielded by people whose politics I do not share and whose intolerance I abhor. The word Christian belongs to no political party. It's time the quiet majority of believers took it back...
...church on Sunday, work hard and value my marriage. Again, it's not so much my party's platform that rejects the family; God help us all if Bush's brutality to the poor continues much longer. It's a small but very vocal minority, the Democratic pundits, who abhor what I represent because it doesn't fit the stereotypical image of the modern woman who has escaped from domestic prison. Fifty years ago, a stay-at-home mom who loved her husband would not automatically be assumed to be a Republican. The image of the Democratic Party that used...
...Victor Akunov 22, student in foreign languages, Moscow State Pedagogical University The French students speak for me-but they do so in the wrong voice and the wrong way. I abhor their violence. I do not believe that street fighting leads anywhere. I support non-violent protests. [At the same time]I have no confidence whatsoever about getting good, stable employment. It is next to impossible in this country to find a decent job that matches one's professional skills, offers a decent salary and stability, and respects one's social and human rights. I have a friend working...
Economics concentrators might balk at the idea of writing a close-reading paper for a Literature and Arts A course (close reading exercises may seem, to them, the equivalent of a problem set), chemistry concentrators may very well abhor their Moral Reasoning exams, but practicing writing, it seems to me, is always practical. Expos, in theory, prepares every Harvard student for four years of academic writing, and these early lessons are borne out through the undergraduate years, as most students will write a paper of some sort each semester...