Word: arens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Four-legged ones, you mean," I said. "Yes," he replied, "the Moscow wolves aren't in any danger...
What's more, in this opera all the players can actually sing. The majority of the cast deliver their "patter songs"--the quick-paced, witty recitatives that are the trademark of Gilbert and Sullivan operetta--with careful articulation of the words. This allows viewers who aren't familiar with the play to follow the plot and understand the jokes. Yamakawa and Rupp are more conventionally operatic singers. Yamakawa's solos are lovely, and the music occasionally surprises with its beauty, as in the grief-colored "merry madrigal" near the beginning...
...within it a genuine passion for some idea or person, a feeling forged out of a depth and sincerity that his irritating comments in class would never have revealed. The pressures of college life often lead us to dismiss people too quickly, when the truth is that they simply aren't that bad. If we took the time to see who they really were, we would discover the incredibly deep pool of personal integrity that lies just below those little things that make us write people off as not worth our time...
...Salient, I've had to take a great deal of flak and answer many questions over the past year. Some people are puzzled by what they perceive as a conflict between my politics and my personal life. "How can you be gay and still be so conservative?" they ask. "Aren't conservatives supposed to be homophobic bigots...
...suggestion that they're not yet really as broad-minded or understanding as they could be. I'd like to believe that the queer community and its ardent supporters, who advocate incessantly for tolerance, are themselves tolerant of all views and opinions. But suggestions that those of us who aren't radicals are traitors or worse reminds me of the sad truth of our political climate. As conservatives, we are still not tolerated here at Harvard...