Word: gens
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From going door-to-door in the slums of New Jersey to being on the frontlines of the civil rights movement to teaching his lecture-hall filling Harvard elective, Gen Ed 105, "The Literature of Social Reflection," Coles embodies the ideal of considering people--from small children to towering figures--with equal weight to their importance as humans...
...Coles gradually extended his freshman seminars of the late 1970s into Gen Ed 105--one of the most popular electives at Harvard...
Knowing them, this is my advice from 2020: Be smarter and happier through doing things you like. Enjoy Gen. Ed. 105? Get some friends. They'll help you make the same sorts of discoveries about yourself. Afraid to say what you really feel because of Harvard's hyper-liberal atmosphere? Say it anyway--most of those people like a good fight as much as you do. Then you'll know yourself well enough to know what you really want out of life, and you'll know others well enough to make them give it to you. These may sound like...
Much younger than Feld or Villella, Webre is more directly in touch with the sensibilities of the Gen-X audiences he longs to attract, yet his newly galvanized dancers look as good in Tudor's piercingly nostalgic The Leaves Are Fading as in his own up-to-the-second pieces. This is no coincidence. "I cherish the ballet vocabulary," he says. "Its formalism is a vehicle to achieve the divine within us. But I'm also an American pop-culture person--I grew up watching Charlie's Angels reruns and going to rave nightclubs five nights a week...
...every generation has its vice, day trading is it for Generation X. Think of it as financial cocaine--pleasant highs, awful lows, disastrous in the long run. Gen Xers aren't the only ones abusing this drug. Far from it. But to them it's hip. The Gap kids lost tens of thousands each in the market's spring cleaning. But, hey, they're with it. They wear their losses as a badge of cool...