Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After a brief introduction by BGLSA Political Chair Joshua L. Oppenheimer '96-'97, members held candles and sprawled on the cement, as a symbolic memorial to those who have died of AIDS...
After Oppenheimer's brief introduction, the atmosphere was immediately hushed. Dressed in black, students and some alumni carried glowing candles and sprawled on the cement...
PUCC's commitment to revitalizing the council as a student voice is commendable, but in its brief campaign it proved unable to articulate these interests outside of a fairly narrow political agenda. While the leadership took pains to argue for inclusion, PUCC's platform emphasizing "social responsibility," "unionized contractors for University projects," and "permanent faculty members in ...ethnic studies, gay studies, and labor economics," rang hollow before a more moderate student body...
...parishioners, to be sure, express mild disagreement with positions that John Paul, hewing to church doctrine, has emphasized during his 17 years as Pontiff. The ban on women in the priesthood prompts a brief debate. Joseph Lewis, 64, a retired Westinghouse engineer and chair of the St. Joseph parish council, suggests that the omission of women from the ranks of the Apostles may have been historical rather than theological: "You've got to put yourself back to A.D. 25 to interpret the Jewish religion and the Roman Empire. Could you picture Christ choosing women Apostles? There's a different frame...
...good-natured Allen Ginsberg, a self-absorbed Anais Nin, a pathologically untruthful Truman Capote, an endearing Tennessee Williams (who, during lunch with Senator John Kennedy in Palm Beach, Florida, tells Vidal that their host has a great butt), and a rather mawkish Jack Kerouac, with whom Vidal has a brief affair. (No man is a hero to his Vidal--and every man, the author insinuates, harbors homoeroticism within...