Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Part of a discussion addressing the creation of a "strong women's movement at Harvard-Radcliffe," the four undergraduate panelists told about 25 alums in the Lyman Common Room (LCR) that female students are still not treated equally by Harvard...
...social life, that shouldn't be hard), you might not want each person to whom you send the e-mail to forward it their 40 closest friends and business associates. For Harvard students, it's all about networking. Unfortunately, in avoiding this problem you can only rely on the common sense of your guests...
Perhaps the most moving section of the book isthe chapter titled "The Lost Baby," in whichLindbergh explores the depths of her own loss, aswell as her mother's. The highly publicizedkidnapping of Charles Lindbergh, Jr. was notspoken about in their household, as she describes:"I think...there was a common understanding amongthe siblings, during my grown-up years, that thisbaby [Charles Lindbergh, Jr.], like the 1927flight to Paris, was part of an era that hadnothing to do with us." Yet when Lindbergh's ownfirst son passed away at the same age that CharlesJr. was abducted, the story of her brother...
...fantastic nature of all of these characters can't in the end, do much to muffle the fact that everything families normally cling to for common happiness is steadily and completely destroyed for everyone in Bette and Boo's extended family: Thanksgiving is ruined in a mess of spilled gravy and arguments, nobody can remember why anyone celebrates Christmas, birthdays always end in somebody dying, horny priests make religion unreliable and children don't, in the end, ever respect their parents (and for good cause...
...album was supposed to be an EP. Then they put forth "Definition," a first single that achieved the seemingly impossible--i.e. reusing BDP's "1-2-3" hook and still coming off--and then slowly gave the world little tastes of glories to come, such as tracks featuring Common and underground hero Wordsworth's best appearance on wax to date. Everyone I talked to was in concurrence: This album is gonna be bananas...