Word: alienate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...museum is associated, the department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, is more than just archaeology. There are lodged almost all the University's faculty involved in Arab, Jewish, Turkic and Persian history and culture. I can see why an archaeologist fixed on the ancient world might feel alien from exhibits like "Danzig 1939: Treasures from a Destroyed Community," which reopened the museum, or from "The Jewish Experience at Harvard and Radcliffe," created to celebrate the University's 350th anniversary in 1986. The same might be said for "Palms and Pomegranates: The Costumes of Saudi Arabia" or "Monumental Islamic Calligraphy...
Finally, this view of toleration argues that truth is secondary to the process by which we arrive at it. Truth would have no value if an alien descended to Earth one day and gave us the answers to all our problems and settled all our controversies on the spot. That would defeat the purpose of living, which is to struggle against each other as individuals to find our own answers, debunk our own myths and reach our own compromises. And even if in the end we discovered that truth was only an imaginary trophy, the game will still have been...
...Harvard acceptance letter arrives at his house in Sanger, California. Navarrette describes a feeling of belittlement when confronted by peers and high school faculty who carelessly and sometimes innocently inferred that he was accepted only because of his ethnicity. Upon arriving at Harvard, Navarrette found himself in an alien environment. He was shocked by the transition from dry and sunny California to wet and dreary New England, as well as the change from a community that is predominantly Mexican-American (70% of the population) to one where Chicanos form an almost invisible minority (only 2.5% at Harvard...
...makes the text accessible, and its cynicism about the rich is timeless. But the play's rage depends in large part on the context of classical notions about the sacred nature of hospitality. These ideas of mutual obligation, almost unto ruin, were antique in Shakespeare's day, and are alien to our own. Thus Bedford wisely plays the extravagant Timon as a bit of a buffoon, easily gulled, while his fair-weather friends are made more foul by licentious excess...
...Gaunt "Good Bad Happy Sad" 2. Shellac "Doris" 3. New Bomb Turks "American Soul Spiders" 4. Bikini Kill "Alien She" 5. Kudgel "Chicken Pump" 6. Royal Trux "Back to School" 7. Rancid Hell Spawn "Eyeball in my Mouth" 8. Boredoms "Bore Now Bore" 9. The Fumes "Empty Cell" 10. The Queers "Bonehead" 11. Fat Day "Choad Nickel" 12. Frances Gumm "So Much of Nothing" 13. Element of Crime "Delinquint Squint" 14. Huggy Bear "Teen Tighterns" 15. Killdozer "The Pig Was Cool" 16. The Lune "The Traveller" 17. Skinned Teen "Punk Rockest" 18. Adickdid "Eye Level" 19. Sparkalepsy "Bong Ammo...