Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First-years in three Matthews Hall suites awoke yesterday morning to find that their common rooms had been burglarized while they were sleeping...
...there's anything that was just like it was supposed to be, it was the Boys Across the Hall. They fixed our computers, and we taught them how to swing dance in their common room before moving on to the master classes in Leverett dining hall. When we got back from Thanksgiving break, they called us over to see the real live Christmas tree they'd decorated, and on Valentine's Day we found collective flowers from them in our common room. In a happily self-deprecating running joke, we invented an imaginary sitcom based on our less-than...
...exemplary individual, and what is remarkable is the extent to which he seems to understand and to successfully employ the techniques and the tropes of American environmentalist literature. What these techniques come down to, at bottom, has always been the recognition that logic will not suffice in altering the common perception of human responsibility.The environmentalist's have believed that, ultimately, it is not logical consideration that brings people to hopeless irony, and that redemption too will be effected not through logic but through passion and commitment.The use of the exemplary self is the attempt to convince not through argument...
...technique is common at Harvard, and many students have become accustomed to the analysis that accompanies each of their reading assignments...
Throughout the ordeal, Dunn's goal was simple: "To talk as much as possible. To find out what it was all about, to discover where we had common ground, to work together as much as we could," she said...