Word: hereness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"In the midst of all of the statistics and economics here this was someone who reminded us what we can really do," said Rachel D. Hitch, a first-year Kennedy School student.
There has been much theatrical hand-wringing and histrionic exclamation following the so-called "homophobic incidents" in Mather, Adams and Winthrop Houses. It seems that everyone within the confines of Harvard, House masters and students alike, has scrambled to express their shock that such a thing could happen here, at...
By drawing uncharitable distinctions between straight and queer, between the sanctioned and the oppressed, out queer students are seen as rending asunder what was comfortably whole. The display of "common courtesy" is itself a privilege, ostentatiously exhibited by those who would preserve the fantasy of conciliatory homogeneity--the wide-eyed...
"My career at the Harvard Club in New York began with my demonstrating outside it," Steinem quipped. "What am I here for if not for making trouble?"
"Whenever I've come here to speak, I've thought, 'this is going to be hypercritical and cold;' but it's never been true," she said.