Word: companionship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Children like the arrangement because they can roam freely from one friend's house to another. Parents appreciate having lots of help keeping watch, and singles enjoy the companionship. "My kids were grown up and gone," says Susan Barnhill, 57, a Mary Kay cosmetics saleswoman, as she rolls her wheelchair in the front-door of a flat especially adapted to her needs. "Here, there are instant friends...
Though most students attend MIT's summertime Research Science Institute (RSI) to expand their theoretical knowledge in one of many fields, gain an appreciation of real-life scientific research procedures and enjoy the companionship of those with similar interests, one side benefit is that the program occasionally inspires funny-sounding e-mail messages from a place apparently named "Johore," a region in Malaysia. At least this is what first-year Altay Guvench found out after he attended RSI two summers ago. Shortly before presenting a final report on his activities at MIT's Lincoln Laboratories, a military research lab, Guvench...
...there are many electric moments in the play. Set designer John Gordan '01 places Shepard's characters in what resembles a series of stacked prison cells, and it is in this segmented, sequestered reality--under the blinding, white lights of Matt Denman '00--that they must fight to find companionship and solace. The difficulty of coming together in such antiseptic enclosures makes the play's moments of human contact, or near contact, all the more heart-stopping. And it makes the play's final image, an image of ultimate loneliness, seem all the more sad for its inevitability...
...this sense, the word "integration"--thrown around by the College and House Masters as emblematic of a healthy House community--is both vague and misleading. To expect students to abandon their self-created social circles for the companionship of several hundred random residents is both silly and simple-minded. Social circles of varying sizes are an inevitable part of House and campus life. Eliminate them in the form of blocking and they will merely recreate themselves after subsequent rounds of the yarn game...
...Premise In search of companionship and empathy, a confused young man [Norton] wanders from support group to support group, seeking human connection. He ultimately finds it when he and his friend, Tyler Durden (Pitt), create a new club where rich, bored young men fight each other till one surrenders or dies. The trend soon spreads in to cult-like, society-warping proportions. Also, the nameless narrator [Norton] becomes involved in a love triangle with Tyler and a girl named Marla [Carter...