Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most obvious danger is a woman's own passivity toward her situation. Silent consent. In this post-feminist age, the politics of elaborating and emphasizing differences are unfashionable. Most women at Harvard would hesitate to label themselves feminists, a term which connotes bra-burning radicals and militant man-haters. And of course, feminists never wear lipstick or shave their legs...
...along with the activism of the Coalition Against Sexual Violence have catalyzed discussion and debate about rape, violence and relationships in general. TBTN week continues the comeback of heightened awareness. Small-group discussions have tackled issues such as on-line privacy for women (redefining stalking laws in the Internet age), international women's rights abuses, and local resources for battered women...
...search for the original language, the purest language of poetry, inevitably leads Hollander into age-old questionings about the line between art and truth. The really fascinating (and even kind of moving) poems in Figurehead express a powerful anxiety over the duel power of art to both display and destroy truth. Art, Hollander claims, is not only an "'expression'/ of pain and longing, of delight and hope," but also is a physical power in and of itself, intimately connected with physical pain and destruction. Hollander continually focuses on the ultimate emptiness of all art. He obsesses over the power...
...literature, "celebrates the universal quest for spirituality" with a mixture of seemingly simple choral chants, organ music, processionals and poems that span both history and religion. With the combination of these differing elements Monk successfully avoids the always enticing "universal answer for spirituality" so popular with televangalists and new-age gurus, instead creating a physical as well as psychological space for reflection...
...This team has come of age this season," Harvard Coach Gordon Graham said. "They never got down and battled in every match...