Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When he was diverted from a fashion assignment and ordered to cover the European Security Conference in Helsinki for an Italian weekly last July, Freelance Photographer Franco Rossi, 35, was impressed by the elaborate security arrangements-at first. From his balcony perch in Finlandia House he watched no fewer than seven U.S. Secret Service men checking the area where Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger were to sit. "I saw them even taste the water in Ford and Kissinger's carafes," says Rossi. The photographer had been standing at his tripod for three tedious hours when finally, he recalls...
...most Americans, these and similar recent events are unfamiliar. To those who learn about them, they are jolting evidence of the spread of unabashed homosexuality once thought to be confined to the worlds of theater, dance, fashion, etc. Similarly jolting have been public announcements of their homosexuality by a variety of people who could be anybody's neighbors?a Maryland teacher, a Texas minister, a Minnesota state senator, an Ohio professor, an Air Force sergeant...
...course not all the dealing goes on in that fashion. But W. C. Burriss Young '55, acting dean of freshmen and leader of the all-night sessions, claims that "there is a lot of competitive horsetrading" when the freshmen advisers play matchmakers with the incoming class...
...general education--a liberal education--not for the relatively few, but for the multitude," and thus invented the prevailing optimistic theory about what Harvard College does. You will supposedly come here and become well-rounded and interested in the world around you, and opening your eyes in this fashion is Harvard's institutional purpose. General Education is still around, of course. Your proctor will tell you about it; mostly it means you have to take a science course here even if you don't want to, but the spirit still lingers...
...argument with a scriptural passage from Jeremiah or a verse from Luke, then, just as earnestly, cite Marx in condemning economic injustice. The theology of liberation in fact combines Marxist economic analysis with the teachings of the Old Testament prophets and the commands of the Christian gospel to fashion a demanding spiritual ethic: that it is every Christian's duty to fight "oppression," especially industrial capitalism, which is viewed by this theology as the central evil today...