Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pace the sidewalks in front of Loker Commons, sometimes even crossing the threshold, sometimes even claiming a booth for our own. But it is always as outsiders, never again to join the chosen ones; it may not show, yet it weighs heavy on our hearts (and stomachs...
...computer needs a user manual. While I am at it, I could use a handbook or two explaining how the food is chosen at this school, how the pathetic French department works and how to get my 50 pages worked-on-it-for-two-weeks-straight research papers back. But this week we are blessed with the publication of a Handbook on Race Relations. Just what I needed...
...President Geneva T. Malenfant said that the CCA has not chosen specific independent councillors as "targets" for replacement. The independent councillors organized into the Alliance for Progress...
...real question, therefore, is not why Harvard men are chosen by others, but why they choose others. I do not mean to suggest we Harvard women are any more superior in character or ability to the women of other schools than are the men to their male counterparts. My point is merely that we women also list Harvard on our social resume, and yet ours is not an asset, but a drawback. While Harvard has been so kind as to extend its academic prestige to include our gender, it has not transformed this social stereotype...
...setting. The Harvard woman, usually so unique, usually so assertive and usually so individualistic is in this social context merely one of many. While the men actively choose the groups of women with which they wish to mingle, we must passively cross our fingers, hoping that we get chosen. The final clubs' walls echo the sounds of the an unforgotten past--male assertion and domination against female weakness and submission...