Word: doored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hopefully, for the Class of 2002, the thrill of Harvard is more prevalent than the fear of not-Harvard. But even if the fear of a closed door is more of a catalyst than the thrill of an open door, a door is a door is a door. Perhaps through the benefit of her Radcliffe education, Adrienne Rich '51 came to understand this very well...
...Either you will go through this door or you will not go through. If you go through there is always the risk of remembering your name. Things look at you doubly and you must look back and let them happen. If you do not go through it is possible to live worthily to maintain your attitudes to hold your position to die bravely but much will blind you, much will evade you, at what cost who knows? The door itself makes no promises. It is only a door...
This poem should be hand screened on the covers of those glaringly blank, red pre-frosh folders. It is a valuable lesson for those at any transitional stage, in front of any door: Whether you go through or do not go through, know that the risks, the double-vision, the possibilities, the deterrents and the costs will be there nonetheless. They are the things to deal with. The door is only a detail...
Princeton threatened to tie the game in the last half of the seventh when they had runners at first and second with no outs. But fresh off of her first--and long overdue--Ivy League Pitcher of the Week honor,Cupp closed the door on the Tigers with a littlehelp from her defense...
...blocking tactic aimed at stopping Republicans from plowing the budget surplus (now projected to be as high as $75 billion this year alone) into tax cuts. But last week, in the first of four promised forums on Social Security, Clinton proved he was serious by opening the door a crack to the radical--and, to Democratic traditionalists, heretical--idea of "privatizing" at least part of the system...