Word: closeting
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...inspired by the 100th anniversary of the Boston Marathon, Harte decided to take his sneakers out of the closet and take up marathon running...
...high school during the late 1970s, his peers taught him names for himself: words like "fag" pushed him further into the closet...
...after years of internal strife, Perkins gave up his fundamentalist religious beliefs, left therapy and came out of the closet...
...would completely desire for every person to turn from all of their sins, including homosexuality," Phillips says.CrimsonUche A. BlackstockCOMING OUT OF THE CLOSET: Divinity School student BENJAMIN D. PERKINS tried therapy, believing he could change his sexual orientation...
Compared with predecessors Mao and Deng, he enjoyed an easy revolution, and he had a far more worldly upbringing. "I wouldn't describe him as a closet Western-culture buff," says Kenneth Lieberthal, a China scholar at the University of Michigan, "but he has a more appreciative attitude than many Chinese." He once told an American visitor that he regretted not earning a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but one of his sons did get his from Philadelphia's Drexel University and worked for Hewlett-Packard in California before returning to China...