Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like a fake greenhouse, lead you in, and you think you see life and vitality and sun and greenness, and then when you love them, they lead you out into their real soul, a drafty, cavernous, empty ballroom, inexorably arched and vaulted and mocking you with its echoes--you hear all you have sacrificed, all you have given, landing with a loud clunk...
...Harvard's rationale unravels and Black South Africa, led by Bishop Tutu, demands total corporate disengagement, we no longer hear the early assertion that divestment would be wrong, simply that it would be "ineffective." The University which was going to single-handedly reform a racist, computerized police state from within (what happened?) all of a sudden does not have the power to influence the policy of business in its country...
...from-New Jersey, but I know the what-exit-do-you-live-on nonsense would be a constant irritation. Ditto to the I-spent-a-week-in-Cleveland-one-day remarks. And I suppose that some would he hurt to hear that suicide-in-Buffalo-is-redundant. Maybe I've learned the hard way. A little mutual respect would go a long...
...Hear Ye, Hear...
...belabor the point, attempting to fulfill elusive distribution requirements. What the University should find exciting about this interest is that it's an example of what every liberal arts education is supposed to contain and so sporadically does: study for study's sake. Those who flock to hear Jardine and Johnson, Suleiman and Phinney know that lit crit is a combination, in its broadest description, of such disparate disciplines as linguistics, philosophy, and traditional literary analysis. And they want to study it because it's interesting and important. It's move than a shame that there isn't enough room...