Word: designate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presence of talented homosexuals in the field of classical music, among composers, performers, conductors and management, has sometimes led to charges by disappointed outsiders that the music world is a closed circle. The same applies to the theater, the art world, painting, dance, fashion, hairdressing and interior design, where a kind of "homintern" exists: a gay boss will often use his influence to help gay friends. The process is not unlike the ethnic favoritism that prevails in some companies and in big-city political machines; with a special sulky twist, it can be vicious to outsiders. Yet homosexual influence...
...increasing seriousness of the Cambridge housing shortage now began to put pressure on Harvard from another quarter: low-income residents of Cambridge and Design School students and Faculty sympathetic to their plight began calling upon Harvard to build more than 150 units of housing on Shady Hill...
There will, however, be plenty of time to try to develop a design for 300 units that is acceptable to the neighborhood, for the Shady Hill plans are facing yet another delay on a different score: that of money...
...actually begin work on Shady Hill. Whatever detailed plan is finally adopted, the University may end up losing more friends than it makes through the Shady Hill project. Too many divergent interests are involved-from those of junior faculty anxious for lower rents through neighbors wanting a park or design improvements that cost more money to low-income community residents anxious for a piece of the Shady Hill...
...talks of capitalism oppressing people. True. But nowhere in his grand design of liberation does he include these "oppressed peoples." Removing the oppressor is a very good idea but removing the oppressor does not necessarily liberate the oppressed. You talked of Algeria in some context, so let's look at it. Once the poorer people were ruled by the French. Now they are ruled by an Algerian elite. True, the colonialists were removed by terrorism and the threat of civil war in France. But it didn't change matters for the oppressed people. Instead of the instrument of oppression being...