Word: enlightenement
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Outgoing Sports Editor Sean Wissman is working in Kansas and won't be here this semester. He might be back to enlighten us with his stories of the Midwest next fall, however. (If we let him, that is.) Seriously, we hope all goes well with Sean...
Though the play is certainly not as relaxing as your everyday cup of tea (as its title suggests), it is funny and does what it sets out to do--educate, enlighten, and entertain...
...DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in his recent address at Hillel about the moral content of our identities and what ideas can cut across racial and religious divides to make the world better for humanity. These are good questions. The answers to these questions will enlighten us, empower us and maybe even give Blacks and Jews something worthwhile to discuss...
...closing, we would like to reiterate that the mission of the Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association is to present intellectual discourse that will serve not only to uplift, empower and enlighten the Black community, but the greater Harvard community as well. Alison L. Moore...
...answer, it seems, lies in Quindlen's own writing, a style that attempts to entertain readers while striving to enlighten them. For, as Williams so wryly noted in Vanity Fair, a Pulitzer Prize winning writer such as Quindlen has the "journalistic equivalent of tenure at Harvard"--she can say anything she pleases without fear of retribution. Yet her writing is strangely reminiscent of the nineteenth century branch of feminism that preached a woman's role to be that of a social reformer, urging readers to wake up to such issues as the plight of children in the inner cities...