Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ever been fooled by a false rumor, you know that the strongest impulse is to build your own rumor mill, preferably out of common household items. So why not start a local Harvard rumor? Not a rumor about an individual, of course, since that would be far too simple for skeptics to confirm or deny--and if it ever got back that you were the one who started the rumor, it could mean trouble for you indeed. No, if you're going to start a rumor, don't just make it gossip. Make it legendary...
...Vicky C. Hallett is a first-year living in Holworthy Hall. When not hunting down members of final clubs, she can be found sucking her thumb in the corner of her common room...
...most object to the common features of these post-everything trends: the disdain for Western civilization and popular culture, the denial of the desirability or universality of human rights, the denigration of the ability of individuals to be autonomous moral agents, and a magnanimous disrespect for religion, science and aesthetics...
While he does not believe modern Biblical scholars will ever stand on common ground with their ancient counterparts, Kugel sees a reason to pursue both lines of Scriptural inquiry...
...from the moment I came here six years ago. What I've admired in students I've come to know, more than their intelligence, hard work and high spirits, is their moral seriousness that expresses itself in respect for the school, in strong values and principles and in common decency. But yesterday I was ashamed of a group of Harvard students, and I would like to express my disappointment...