Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Minority recruitment and admissions have always been disputed issues, and last month's Crimson article, "Minority Admissions--Still a Ways to Go," pointed out a very sad fact--that Third World students have not taken the initiative to express themselves on issues pertaining to the Third World community at Harvard and around the country...
...undo Donne?but they are trying. Poet-Novelist Carol Spearin Mc-Cauley notes in her book Computers and Creativity (Praeger) that the well-programmed computer is freed from "the confines of English grammar, syntax and common usage ... The machine's lack of shame, so to speak, frees it to express many things that a writer, by habit used to excluding or censoring the ungrammatical, awkward or ambiguous, would not consider." Marie Boroff, an English professor at Yale, acted as muse to a computer that produced these near-erotic lines...
...every holiday belongs a certain genre of literature, designed to express a certain sentiment to those we love, or to those institutions we are afraid to lay as under...
...competing papers into ferreting out the lurid details. According to first reports, the tragic story involved a Saudi Arabian princess called Misha who married a commoner, thereby incurring the wrath of her princely grandfather; she was shot and her husband beheaded. Leading the Fleet Street pack was the Daily Express, which published some blurry pictures that purported to show the beheading of Misha's lover, taken by a British tourist with an Instamatic concealed in a pack of cigarettes...
...shame of Araby," protested Express Columnist Jean Rook. "At a stroke which sliced off a man's head in a howling market place the Arabs have put themselves back a thousand and one years in the eyes of the startled, revolted world." Later, the Express located a German-born woman in London who had been a governess to the Saudi royal family. The newspaper ran her narrative under the rubric "the real story by the woman who knew the secrets in the heart of the tragic princess...