Word: elements
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Stone takes his time putting all the elements of an enormously complicated plot into place. Much religious arcana are offered: "How the Kabbalistic doctrine of ayin, the unknowable element in which the Infinite exists, had its Hindu cognate in the concept Nishkala Shiva, the remote absolute." Reading the first half of Damascus Gate can, at such moments, feel like a long uphill trek...
...Judas Kiss. (The play received mixed reviews during its London run.) By bringing a doomed libel suit against the Marquis of Queensberry--the outraged, decidedly macho father of Wilde's bratty, poetic young lover, Lord Alfred Douglas--Wilde unleashed the forces that in time consumed him. "There was an element of hubris," says Hare. "He may have thought there wasn't a situation that he couldn't talk himself...
...than official documents. If you cannot get the author to confirm an e-mail, does it constitute a valid source at all? Jennifer 8. Lee, vice president of The Crimson, concedes, "There is an additional responsibility to check on the source of an e-mail: there is a bigger element of gullibility. E-mail treads a tenuous line between phone conversations and formal letters." The distinction is a significant one--notice that while citing leaked letters may be fair game, tapped phone conversations are definitely...
...same time, one of my main concerns with randomization was that houses, once a strong element to college life, would deteriorate as a greater Harvard focus emerged. But that hasn't happened. Although Mather no longer quite fits the endearing nickname "home for steroids" that adorns an old t-shirt, there remains a distinct feeling of house community. Yesterday morning, Winthrop House hosted a welcome to their rising sophomores, the class that will make randomization complete. The Winthrop that these first years saw was a vital and connected community, not an apathetic and coincidental collection of individuals...
There is no doubt that house traditions and characters will change, perhaps more quickly and markedly than before. But change alone is nothing negative. In fact, change is perhaps the most defining element of the college experience: Every year, 25 percent of our community changes and within four years essentially the entire student body is new. The critical piece is maintaining exciting and cohesive house lives, whatever qualities define them...