Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the recent proposal by the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard (CLUH) to allow undergraduates to live in co-ed rooming groups, the College has the opportunity to break down the last remaining artificial barrier between its men and women...
That number could soon soar even higher. In the past, street heroin was 6% to 10% pure and an addict had to take it intravenously to get high. Many cocaine users are unwilling to break through the "needle barrier" and inject themselves, in part out of fear of being infected with AIDS from a shared needle. But for the past several years, less diluted heroin from Southeast Asia that can be smoked has been widely available on the streets of New York, Boston and other cities. At $10 a 0.05-gram bag, the so-called China White is cheap enough...
...most part, however, the performance fails to engage. Because of a weakness in characterization the audience cannot cross the barrier between the worlds of the healthy and the dying. We do not learn who Alex is, where she comes from, or how she got AIDS. She remains the anonymous victim of a disease we don't understand--she borders on the stereotypical. The audience maintains the detachment they entered with, never feeling the terror of a person's approaching death...
These professors argue that the student-faculty social barrier is the fault of the student for not actively pursuing contact. "We are available," they profess, "but the students must supply the initiative...
...gulf that persists between Latins and Anglos. "Paul Simon is doing an album in Spanish, and Ronstadt and Los Lobos just did albums in Spanish, so what's the big deal?" asks Blades, who eschews the term crossover to describe such projects. "It implies an acceptance of a barrier," Blades explains, "and I refuse to acknowledge a barrier. I think the barriers are in the mind and in the heart. People tell me, 'You close your eyes, and you're too idealistic,' and I have to say no. In all honesty, I never saw the barrier...