Word: confrontational
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Fortunately, the times that our generation will confront the horrors are rare. This is a chance for our class to take a strong and clear stance on Harvard’s immoral investment practices. To the idealists: there will never be a perfect moment nor a perfect movement. To the skeptics: the paralysis of analysis is dangerous. To those who are apathetic: past inaction earlier does not justify inaction now. We now have the opportunity in this specific moment to put into action the theories we have scrutinized for the past four years, to actively realize our humanitarian responsibility...
These sessions—two of which have been held already—are part of the undergraduate working group of the Women in Science and Engineering task force, which is chaired by Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences Barbara J. Grosz. The group is charged with devising proposals to confront challenges facing women in science at Harvard...
...respondent is never allowed in the same room with the victim. This means, as Silversmith points out, that the accused is not allowed to confront the accuser...
...aesthetic assets. Since each piece is so closely tied to the cultural identity of the performers, it is only natural that the performers let some of their personal identity slip into their acts. And perhaps it is the Spoken Word Society’s act that will most explicitly confront and expose the fact that Cultural Rhythms is a production that showcases personal identity. In their performance, they speak out against American consumer culture and the ivory-tower atmosphere of academia that they call “being trapped inside the Harvard walls...
...Vagina Monologues is written to exploit the guiding principle that the ability to laugh at something, or even just say it out loud, can blunt the edge of the controversial and allow us to confront the unspeakable. Thus, hearing other women’s experiences can, if nothing else, help us to think about our own. In fact, as a woman, it is hard to not to identify with and reflect on two skits (“Hair” and “My Angry Vagina”) that pointedly discuss the unnatural aesthetic standards by which...