Word: connect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Noting Harvard students' frequent failure to "connect our theoretical knowledge to our obligation to care for those whose needs we have forgotten," former Undergraduate Council President Lamelle D. Rawlins '99 said Annan "has embodied the spirit of active involvement that we should all aspire...
...could never really understand my mother's anger towards the political leadership of South Africa nor her soliloquies on the importance of negritude and the relationships within the African Diaspora. Sure, I was black, but those black people in Africa were different than I was. I could not connect their experience to my own as a black pre-teen who could go anywhere and say anything that I chose. It seemed to me that black people had taken up the South African cause without any real comprehension of the situation...
Galluccio says his background, as well as his skills in policy-making, allow him to connect well with Cambridge residents...
What Cambridge needs, he says, is a "policy person who can connect with working people...
...some extent. Only the most obnoxious of first-year students actually arrive at college with no enthusiasm for meeting and greeting their peers. Most race around trying desperately to meet as many people as possible, as if college were ending tomorrow and they feared missing any opportunity to connect with their future soulmates or to make a name for themselves on campus or to take advantage of every single resource the university might offer them. Those who were uncomfortable with themselves during high school seize the chance to remake themselves, introducing to others a person whom even they...