Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...itself. THE GOTHIC COMMUNITY IN NO WAY CONDONES THE USE OF VIOLENCE, it read. WE ARE APPALLED BY THE KILLINGS AND BY THE INFERENCE THAT THE MURDERERS BELONGED TO OUR CULTURE. Inside, owner Malaise Graves lamented the spotlight the Littleton killings had suddenly thrown on Goth culture. "I'm afraid this violent stereotyping of us is only going to get worse now," she sighed...
...members never get to leave Cambridge at all. For instance, Adams House residents may engender campus-wide envy for their dining hall, but while eating there is a culinary delight, one can't imagine that the same joy accompanies waltzing in it. Dartbord, for instance, would simply be too afraid of being gonged out of the dance. How embarrassing! They may do it up right with lights and clear the floor of tables, but nothing beats swinging with your favorite teddy (bear...
...stands over her laundry in a wooden room in rural Tennessee. Lloyd sits in a chair near her, shivering under his blanket, devoured by a disease he is ashamed of and afraid to face. There is a perpetual tension between the two; Lloyd is sexually crippled and jealous of Mae, who has been seduced by an unbearable desire to educate herself. Indeed, at the school where she goes to learn rudimentary reading and mathematics, she has met an advanced reader named Henry, and she is falling in love...
...from the raging romantic, Melville's Starbuck was a prudent husband of sober Christian morals. He was the one mariner not afraid to confess his fear of whales, a problematic phobia on a whaling expedition. At the end of the book (sorry to give away those suspenseful 300 last pages), when the ship's captain ruthlessly pursues omnipotent Moby Dick, Starbuck contemplates mutiny. But, his respect for authority outweighs Starbuck's determination to return alive to wife and kids. He puts back the knife and ultimately drowns with the rest of the crew, while chasing the whale. Not quite...
Date rape is so pervasive on this campus that I guarantee you know at least one survivor. And you don't know you know because she's afraid to tell her story. Other survivors who have come out to the Harvard administration have had their experiences invalidated and belittled. Your friend isn't going to tell anyone, and maybe she will never get to vocalize what she has to live every day: the horror, the terror, of her rape...