Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some are more than 6 ft. high. Avedon has worked in this scale before, notably in the mammoth prints shown at his 1978 retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Here size works to spare his subjects from condescension. These are not little cameos of dismay to be viewed at arm's length with the lips pursed. Facing figures of this dimension, hung so that their eyes are at or near eye level, the viewer feels himself to be the object of their scrutiny too. Confronted that way, one does more than take note of their...
...read your editorial about the Law School [Dec. 5] with dismay and amusement. Your carefully written editorial neatly side-stepped both the actual and salient realities at the Law School. Perhaps your readers would gain from understanding what these are, in fact...
Individual students can make a difference. The clubs can no longer be accepted as benign vestiges of Harvard's aristocratic past. Students should express dismay when they find out that a friend is considering joining a club. Women should stop accepting the status quo and should refuse to enter clubs which by their very existence encourage demeaning and sexist attitudes. Present members should resign from the clubs because of the clubs' immoral foundations...
...letter to the Crimson (Oct. 29, "Law School Stifling Activism") was a deeply personal one. I was upset over what I believed were gross injustices to people I knew and respected highly, and I wanted some means of expressing my anger and dismay...
...main reactions of students at Harvard to a ban on underage drinking has been dismay. "House cohesion is going to fall apart. Let's face it--without alcohol fewer people are going to come to our parties," said one house committee chairman. However, while we believe raising the drinking age to 21 was ill-considered, and agree that the situation is unfortunate, Harvard apparently must at least try to enforce the law. Students need to take a constructive approach and avoid mere apathy in the face of this problem...