Word: labeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When you (or anyone else) devotes a few lines to painting all the candidates for chairman (or even all of your Undergraduate Council representatives) as nothing more than "humility-lacking glory-seekers" you give us a label we do not at all deserve. I, for one, have had a commitment to trying to make student government work that has been enduring and sincere. The beginning of your Oct. 30 editorial was unfair and hurtful: I am, to say the least, disappointed--I have always thought much better of you... Victor Freeman...
...event. Though the national media seem poised to cover "Harvard's election of a gay chairman," students here seemed to have no thought of such fanfare. The chairman, Michael Colantuono '83, has used his GSA experience as a campaign vote-getter but, now in office, he downplays the label "gay activist"; he promised the council while campaigning that he would not impose his politics or "progressive views" on them. For the meteorically successful Harvard gay rights movement, it may seem that a truly wonderful goal has been attained--this is the year that a gay student could be elected...
Something about the bottle, about the bright red cap snappy as a frontier bonnet, and the white cotton cloud showing through the translucent plastic, and the label, wide and snug, and the staunch lettering of EXTRA-STRENGTH, the whole shape of the thing comforting, like an old-fashioned milk bottle or a VW Beetle: it looks especially good in rows. Something about the rows, all the neat chunky boxes, one after the other, facing forward like a drill team on the shelf. Something about the shelf, third from the top, aisle B, toward the rear of the store, about which...
...even possible these days to see references to colors called natural vinyl and natural nylon. Considering nature's own glaring penchant for diverse and gaudy colors, it is illogical that any anemic shade should be called (as convention calls it) natural. And it is preposterous to put that label on synthetic stuff. If man-made plastics possess a natural color, then it is fair to ask: What is the natural color of a Buick...
...nobility of the natural savage, he correctly saw that social order "does not come from nature." Neither does much of what goes into society's consumer goods. Far too often, as Physicians Stephen Barrett and Victor Herbert write in Vitamins & "Health " Foods: The Great American Hustle, the natural label is nothing but "a magic sales gimmick." The resulting confusion may not be a mortal danger, but it is hardly innocent. Unchecked, it is bound to make it harder for rising generations to maintain a clear notion of the truly natural to which mankind indeed remains tied. Not long...