Word: connect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps if faculty members were more in tune with our age and developing personalities, they might connect with us beyond rating our ability to digest esoteric essays from the trendy perspectives of the marginalized...
...would be ignoring the fact that economic forces connect us all. For instance, if the high school students who now work at fast-food outlets in order to get money for Batman comics and albums by Snoop Doggy Dogg no longer feel the need to buy Batman comics and albums by Snoop Doggy Dogg, they might quit their jobs and leave the rest of us waiting hours for our hamburgers. We might get tired of waiting and eat elsewhere, changing our fat intake in a way that endangers the entire diet industry. That's how free-market capitalism works...
Even holy texts have begun to be adapted to the new technology. The interconnection of religious documents through so-called hyperlinks has produced a new form of scholarship called "hypertheology." Clicking on Lot in an electronic Bible, for instance, might connect you to similar stories in the Koran or pertinent 20th century moral commentaries. Just as the first illuminated manuscripts exposed readers to early theological debates, these hypertexts open up thousands of interpretations of God's words to anyone curious enough to click a mouse...
...second year of his exile from Nazi Germany. Max Beckmann holds a bugle, which he has just blown. His eyes don't meet yours; he looks away, listening for an answering note. It's a piercing image of the artist deprived of his context, hoping to connect, uncertain that he can. European man, signaling from a collapsing world...
...said she would also like to see RUS connect more with Radcliffe administration as well as reach out to first-years...