Word: deepest
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...rainy and grey, Yale was hardly distinguishable from Harvard this past Saturday. The two car rides, one in the morning, the other late at night, framed my third Harvard-Yale football experience; beer, barbecue and the Ivy League comprised it. But it is this last game that made the deepest impression on me. The Ivy league is a consortium of mediocre football teams and despite Harvard's success, it is difficult to say that history was made in any substantive way on Saturday afternoon. Harvard won, Yale lost, Harvard ended its season 7-0 in the Ivies for the first...
...right brain, meantime, goes to the other extreme and lays down, "Nothing foreign is human to me"--a thought that is not merely a nice motto for xenophobes, but also points, if you think about it, toward one of the deepest dynamics of human nature. A healthy character, in its raw state, is a nasty little fascist, equipped with an intolerant immune system; it rejects such deeds as the Cambridge murder and necrophilia in the way that a healthy body rejects an invasion of microbes. This vigorous state of mind has no sympathy for what it identifies as alien life...
Using an "admittedly small and perhaps unrepresentative" sample, I asked some of my female friends whether they would agree with the women interviewed in this article and say that their deepest fear in life was getting a divorce or having their lover walk out on them. All, even those who had boyfriends, emphatically disagreed. They even argued that no-fault divorce had been a major accomplishment of the feminist movement...
...understand the deepest fears of women today. And yet, amazingly, on the basis of a tiny and informal survey, Thomas B. Cotton '98 ("Promises and Covenants," Oct. 3) has managed to get to the heart of the desires and insecurities of the whole female...
...Cotton states brilliantly, the National Organization of Women and other groups "apparently don't consult the deepest hopes of women." I agree--I think Cotton is more in touch with the sentiments of women today than any nationally-based women's group could possibly be. --Shauna Shames...