Word: glads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...both cases, the men of the approach was that people could debate the issues without actually confronting their feelings about homosexuality. Even someone who felt uncomfortable attending Gay and Lesbian Awareness Day (GLAD)--an annual event whose attendance has been dropping discouragingly--could stand firmly on the moral conviction that denying GSA space in registration packets because they were gay showed explicit prejudice and injustice. Put another way dealing in formalized issues obviated the necessity to reform deep instilled impressions of homosexuality...
...speak as I' did, they say, is simply to give comfort to those who are homophobic. The possibility that they may be right makes me uncomfortable, but I am not persuaded. It equally possible that a lack of candor on the part of heterosexuals could confuse some who admire GLAD's political courage and are in the process of shaping their own lives It is possible, too that the same lack of candor might heighten the frustration of those who insecure about themselves, persecute gays In the Harvard community, at least, a large majority is content to live...
...those expressed by Mr. Pattullo, most gays and lesbians" would not feel that they suffered from a disability. I suspect it is impossible to expunge from consciousness the high value heterosexuals place on that aspect of life. The main point of my original letter was to suggest that GLAD should acknowledge this and not equate the toleration it properly seeks with positive approval of gay life by those who think it less desirable than heterosexuality...
This problem has, we were glad to learn last week, attracted the attention of Richard Marius, the director of the expository writing program. Expressing concern that graders often ignore, students' poor writing and do little to develop writing skills. Marius announced his plans to recommend that all section leaders in Core courses with paper assignments be required to undergo a graining program in criticizing written work. His proposal will come this summer, in a report on the expository writing program to Henry Rosovsky, dean of Faculty, he said...
...abrupt hikes were the ironic flip side of falling world oil prices. Kuwait's revenues will drop by about $5 billion this year. The government hopes to offset that by charging domestic energy users more at the pump. Of course, Western drivers would be glad to get back to the days when they paid only...