Word: intentioned
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Sanders Theatre, hear the tourists bargaining with security at the entrance to Widener Library, stare back at the passers-by looking through the open curtains of your suite, or watch as the staff at Annenberg sprints to the hall’s entrance to intercept disobedient and/or ignorant tourists intent on taking pictures of that sacred space. As Harvard students, we go to school in a tourist attraction and as such have a day-to-day college dynamic just a little different than we would anywhere else...
...actions of homosexual males and heterosexual females, the graphic and anthropomorphic representation thereof would seem to be even more offensive. Yet there has been no outrage over Harvard-Yale T-shirts until now. Why? Perhaps because in the past students recognized that these shirts are made without malicious intent (the shirt in question was sold by a humor magazine). Or perhaps because political correctness continues to shift from being a tool to correct egregious obscenity into an end in itself...
...first indication that Smile was not to remain an asterisk in pop history came in 2003, when Wilson (now severed from the Beach Boys) announced his intent to reconstruct and play the album in concerts across Europe. The first of those, in London, attracted instant claims of “timelessness,” both for the concert and what was increasingly seen as a new ordering and orchestration of Smile itself...
...someone else wants to be offended by that, that’s their problem, that’s not mine, because I don’t have malicious intent,” he said. “There’s a big difference between a word and the intent behind a word. And the dictionary says it’s a bundle of sticks...
...plotting shouldn’t subtract from other qualities of fiction, and ultimately, “you can have it all.” Any fan of Ellroy’s will note that his writing is uniquely sonorous and carefully crafted, not the stuff of hack crime writers intent only on weaving a story. “Write the genre you like to read but be original,” he advised...