Word: kinships
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...issuing threats to those students because some (but not all—the Harvard administration seems unconcerned with truth) rallied in Mass. Hall for a fifteen-minute meeting (News, “College Warns PSLM Members,” Mar. 5). Thus the Harvard administration once again demonstrates its kinship for the Bourbon monarchy of the old regime, which, as the saying goes, forgot nothing and remembered nothing...
Prudence L. Carter, an assistant professor of sociology, speaks about the existence of “a notion of fictive kinship among African-Americans.” Referring to Loury’s negative reception by the black community, she explains, “One is considered to be a transgressor because he or she doesn’t hold to the racial party line. Blackness is equated with a certain political and social orientation. Anyone outside of the dominant conceptualization of it will find themselves sanctioned...
...people will face these challenges with the same determination as their forefathers who faced Everest. "I believe little has changed in the Sherpa heart," he writes, "for whether I meet my family and friends at Everest base camp or Kathmandu, in San Francisco or London, the bond of Sherpa kinship and tradition runs deep and strong...
...falls into the truckling-and-treacling mode evident in her script work on Stepmom and The Story of Us. But, lordie, does I Am Sam open the tear ducts! Movie theaters may have to install sluice gates, thanks to Penn's solid, precise and brave performance and his warming kinship with Fanning. He makes the film's shameless sentiment almost as meritorious as it is meretricious...
...their first-years, it cannot provide the same level of advising as an R.A. system. Study breaks once a week do not give first-years an opportunity to have meaningful interaction with upperclass students. Occasional outings are pleasant, but are too rare to foster a true sense of kinship. Most first-years think of their prefects as nice people, but they are unlikely to search them out to talk about anything substantive...