Word: fate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like to critique my favorite line of Shih's editorial. She says, "I understood how the system worked--that unproven graduate students, possessed of varying degrees of familiarity with the course matter and instructional ability, would always decide my academic fate...
Although it sounds like a cliche, I must emphasize that we are not in control of your academic fate--you are. This line by Shih is symptomatic of the passivity of some students...
...ignore McPherson's current sensibilities. McPherson wrote in the note for the program in 1991: "Now I am 31 and my lover has AIDS. Our friends have AIDS. And we all take care of each other, the less sick caring for the more sick. At times an unbelievably harsh fate is transcended by a simple act of love, by caring for one another...
...Boston production is the first that McPherson has been too sick to participate in. His comissioned work is currently on hold. With Marvin's Room, McPherson has transcended an unbelievably harsh fate...
Susan Karlin suffered a similar fate. The graphic designer, who has managed a profitable studio in Manhattan for seven years, needed more computers and a larger staff to accommodate her growing clientele. When she applied for a $100,000 loan at a large bank, she even agreed to put up $200,000 worth of personal property as collateral. She had no previous history of credit problems. A week later, a lending officer called her with the bad news: "We don't feel comfortable with it." Karlin was upset. "I gave them all the documentation they asked for," she said. "Still...