Word: apartment
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...love is a threshold, and a low one at that. We should be able to love early and often. In a love affair, love will naturally grow, unmanaged and unfettered. If it stops growing, the affair falls apart, violently and wrenchingly. But we live to love again, our world having been enriched by all of our past affairs. It is spontaneous, and it is unmatched in human life. Relationships, however, start with a tension--if we weren't initially related, how did we become so?--and represent a struggle ever after. They are a constant fight to "work things...
This period is the subject of Roger Rosenblatt's insightful new book, Coming Apart: A Memoir of the Harvard Wars of 1969. Although he is currently a contributing editor of Time and The New Republic and the author of such books as Children of War, Rosenblatt in 1969 was firmly imbedded within Harvard academia. Having recently received his PhD in English from Harvard, he was the newly minted Head Tutor of Dunster House, a Briggs-Copeland Instructor, and the director of the freshman writing program. Popular among students and well-regarded by his peers, Rosenblatt gained the reputation...
What makes Coming Apart so impressive is that while Rosenblatt certainly presents a gripping account of the takeover and its aftermath, he succeeds in doing more than just that. He addresses one subject that a less acute observer might miss completely: namely, the possibility that the riots might have been fueled at least partially by Harvard's tendency to treat its students as the so-called future leaders of the world: "One of the reasons that very few people who had gone to Harvard ever felt any emotional loyalty toward it is that, by design, one's loyalties were supposed...
...Hampshire took a 2-0 lead on two free position shots in the first six minutes of the game, but Harvard senior Liz Hren and co-captain Daphne Clark scored back-to-back a minute apart. On the next draw, junior Holly Rogers ran all the way down the field and gave Harvard its first lead...
...departmental courses will satisfy the Core requirement, some of us will have very little motivation to take Core classes and some of you might not want to bother teaching Core courses; in fact, the Core may fall apart. But we don't care, as long as at the end of the day every Harvard graduate is still "broadly educated" and acquainted with the "major approaches to knowledge in areas that the faculty considers indispensable to an undergraduate education." And neither should you since these are your self-stated goals...