Word: deviant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Socrates to Emerson, could have been chemically corrected for their own good to better adhere to the norm. If everyone conformed, schools could successfully be made up of "productive" students who effectively stick with traditional studies and perhaps make the honor roll. It seems that we must eliminate the deviant geniuses and artists in favor of the conforming sycophants whom some see as the fountainhead of societal progress. O brave new world! JOHN M. DE PALMA Succsunna...
...Office of the Arts denies funding to student performer Mark R. Talusan, a.k.a. the Dancing Deviant, citing the sexually explicit content of his performance...
Harvard's past is the mythic past; the fact that the deans give all incoming first-years a list of every past occupant of their rooms is conducive to such myth-making. We are all walking down well-trodden paths here, no matter how deviant we feel. And so we let others' pasts become our present, others' ambitions our own desires, others' fashions our own trademarks. There's a word for it, somewhere out there--if not in Portuguese, then perhaps there should be one in Harvardese. Joshua DERMAN Joshua Derman '99 is a philosophy concentrator in Quincy House...
...make him look cuddly and electable in a run for the Senate. Throbbing with scorn, Stang tears into him: "Are we going to impanel a jury to inquire after just what kind of hate this degenerate had running around inside his head? And after we identify all the warped, deviant varietals of hatred...ask the jury which kind of hate made him pull the trigger? Not in my courtroom. Not if I can help...
...film's steady injection of 1958's versionof deviant sex, drug use and rock and roll furtherprovokes the dirty feelings of disgust. Thesethreats to the blissful uniformity of Americanpost-war culture, being perhaps more immediate tothe general audience, elicit the gut response thatthen highlights the more latent tension presentedby the fear of foreign infiltration. Welles, asboth actor and director, effectively uses thenational border to comment on the relationship ofindividual security to larger systems. As much aswe, especially as an American audience, would liketo believe in our absolute ability to choose weare often structured by our identification withsome cause or other...