Word: idealism
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...screening of ‘Titanic,’ because then the cold would have been more realistic.” “Titanic” may have been appropriate for the bikini-clad, but for those with their feet dangling in dark water, Jaws was an ideal choice. Indeed, some viewers found the experience appropriately thrilling. “In the scary parts everyone was sitting with their feet out of the water,” says Katherine A. Rawlinson ’08, who watched from the stands. Most of the floating audience managed to work through...
...years ago I had a student in sophomore English who was struggling with my class and with school in general. Although he was a humorous young man who liked to joke around, I knew his family life was far from ideal. Whenever I approached him about missing homework or low test grades, he always had the same reply: "It doesn't matter because I'm quittin' school anyway." Even though he always said this in a half-teasing way, I knew he needed to hear my protests and my "value of a high school education" lecture. He needed to hear...
...mostly on their newest material and their recent “Broken Arrow,” they displayed considerable craft. Each song had its separate pieces that were put together elegantly. The crowd enthusiastically nodded to the beat. Everyone was engaged and there were few boundaries pushed. As the ideal of what mainstream hip-hop should be like, it was a great capper to the paradox of a very solid, yet all-over-the-place night of performances, relatively free of negative bullshit. —Staff writer Scoop A. Wasserstein can be reached at wasserst@fas.harvard.edu
...sore arm that enabled my promotion to the Indians’ Class A affiliate Lake County Captains. One of the starting pitchers felt a twinge in his shoulder after the team arrived in Ohio and attempted to practice during a light snow flurry. Though this is admittedly not the ideal way to earn a promotion, I am nevertheless thrilled to be with a team and playing meaningful games in front of thousands of fans...
...Some have several. These are the great social spaces of Harvard, with their huge common-rooms and accompanying perks, such as built-in bars and kegerators. Pforzheimer House has the Belltower. Currier House has the Ten-Man. Eliot House has Ground Zero. During the day, they are, ideally, informal hangout spaces for other house residents. By night, they host parties that have drawn sweaty undergrads from all over campus. Traditionally, lotteries distribute the party suites in a random fashion. But this had led to less-than-satisfactory arrangements. We can all think of a party suite we know where...