Word: ironizing
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...nation with different interests (note American liberals’ respect for French liberals and incredulity at American neoconservatives). The subculture is the new culture.It is this truth that humanities departments at Harvard (as well as other universities) fail to grasp, as their scholarship persists in imprisoning subjects within the iron cage of nationality. The History and Literature concentration, for example, starts from the idea that by studying a certain time and location, we can learn more about the culture people create. While this may have been true when the program was first designed over a hundred years...
Liberia’s “Iron Lady” returns to her alma mater today, this time participating in the commencement ceremonies from the podium, as this year’s Class Day speaker at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, president of Liberia, graduated from the Mason Program for international students at HKS in 1971, completing a master’s degree in public administration. She is the first black woman president in the world and the first woman elected head of any African country. “She has been a courageous fighter...
From a podium flanked by the American and Liberian flags, Johnson-Sirleaf—nicknamed the “Iron Lady” for her steely resolve—counseled those going into public service to stay true to their ideals, even when threatened with political dismissal, exile, or imprisonment. Johnson-Sirleaf herself was exiled from Kenya in 1980 and imprisoned later that decade in Liberia...
When Burke K. Zimmerman ’58 was studying iron meteorites to determine the date of origin of the solar system as a research assistant at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), he said he never thought others would be using stopwatches to compute the orbit of Sputnik, the Soviet satellite sent into orbit the fall of his senior year...
...While Harvard is often portrayed as a bubble isolated from its surroundings, one has only to step outside the wrought-iron gates to realize that the University is not an island, but rather a plot of land contiguous with the rest of Cambridge...