Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want to get mail from everybody," he said. "[But] as long as it's one message and controlled by the Dean of Students, I think it's a good idea...
...passivity, Epps' strategy for race relations on this campus does embrace the idea of programmatic action through the Harvard Foundation. Contrast this tack with that of Appelbaum, whose negativity last night proved overwhelming. Aside from admitting that there was a problem, he saw nothing that could be done to alleviate it. This is the worst sort of mentality, the resistance to change for the better. It is not worth detailing his many awful statements (such as calling the proposed multicultural student center a "cage"), but suffice to say that his do-nothing attitude reflected a bent uninterested in solving...
...know. But if I had to go with my very inner instinct, I think it will resonate well because Europe knows what it is to lose freedom of the press. But if the notion succeeds that the movie is glorifying pornography, that could derail the whole idea...
What is so wrong with comfort? For Epps, it is not comfort itself that is bothersome, but the idea of making comfort possible through connecting that part of the 'I' which is a member of 'we.' For Appelbaum, it is comfort that is bothersome because the level of comfort to be delivered by a multicultural student center is an acknowledgment of the existence of a 'we' apart from his own self-created white conservative 'we.' Congruently, the other College Republican on the panel, the more moderate William D. Zerhouni '97-'98, was--in his patronizing manner--perhaps friendly...
...recognize that the idealized and softly modeled figures of his earlier career become more agitated and tense in his later work. Again in the text, we are told that the figures gain "a more passionate directness of emotion" in Botticelli's later works--but that again is an idea more supported by the commentary than the artwork itself. Following such a quick lesson in Renaissance art, most visitors come out of the gallery feeling not only overwhelmed by so many facts and so much commentary, but also a bit disillusioned...