Word: freshness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rudenstine's report has not received as much attention as it deserves. It has not aroused much controversy among students, and The Crimson found it lacking in fresh ideas. But the report was not meant to offer new ideas, and it has perhaps received as much attention as Rudenstine wanted. President since 1991, Rudenstine has kept a low profile, and this is his first venture into a hot political topic. Although he refers to controversy over diversity, he writes dispassionately, raises no new questions, and tries not to add to the controversy. He claims that since the 19th century, Harvard...
...noncommittal ways or of nasty evildoers from whom they need Y-chromosome-enhanced protection. Prostitutes in danger turn up on both shows, looking not at all as they do on the streets of the grittiest precincts in urban America, or even as they do on NYPD Blue. Waifish and fresh-faced, they resemble well-educated publishing assistants saving up for a smart twin...
...Face, have the earthy intimacy of top-notch blues. Along the way, Houston also turns in a patient, slow-building, ultimately satisfying rendition of Amazing Grace--an impressive feat, since the song has been covered so exhaustively by other performers that it's nearly impossible to find a fresh take...
...Daniels writes that the "history," to 1965, of "enormous, government sanctioned advantage...[of] whites over blacks...remains as fresh as today's news." The memory and legacy of that history might be today's news, but the history itself is past and precedes the memory of anyone not in his mid-thirties or older...
...approaches [the Ottoman Empire] both from its origins and, from a fresh way, its decline," said Kirby...