Word: elmbrook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fairness to the members of Opus Dei who wear mustaches, beards, side-burns and long hair and who do not necessarily wear coats and ties at meals at Elmbrook, I have to protest your presentation of Opus Dei in the April 13 issue of the CRIMSON. Dan Barney did a conscientious job, but Opus Dei is not a conservative organization. Neither is it a liberal one. Not everything in this world (happily) can be reduced to such convenient labels...
...Elmbrook is indeed a center of Opus Dei where some students and professional people live. But it is not a little group of holy boys residing tastefully north of the Common cultivating some nice religious practices. It is a center that serves hundreds of Harvard students as well as professional and working people of the Boston area, challenging them and helping them to find that their faith-and indeed their very lives-just might mean something after...
Opus Dei members, however, have a reputation for extreme conservatism. At Elmbrook, life is outwardly more restrained than life in a Harvard House. A recent Life article described Elmbrook's Columbia counterpart as "a tasteful commune for conservatives...
Collier said that students living at Elmbrook hold "diverse political views." "There are no real extremists, or if there are, they keep it to themselves," he added...
...spirit of Opus Dei is that Jaymen can work with laymen," Michael A. Cook '72, a frequent visitor to Elmbrook, said last week...