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Womanist 1. From Womanish (Opp. of "girlish," i.e., frivolous, irresponsible, not serious.) A black feminist or feminist of color... 2 Also: A woman who loves other women, sexually and/or nonsexually. Appreciates and prefers women's culture, women's emotional flexibility (values tears as natural counterbalance of laughter), and women's strength. Some-times loves individual men, sexually and/or nonsexually...
...certain undesirable influences, of things that might interfere with the efficient transmission of neat packets of information, of tried and true "cultural values" into the gaping brains of children. One must first, at all costs, protect our charges from the "commerce of Cambridge merchants," from the "excited talk," "loud laughter," and "disruptive groans" one so often hears in establishments like Tommy's. Really the help should keep "the clatter of dishes" behind closed doors. And the teachers? Well "Harvard Parent" concedes that "the gods and goddesses who collect full salaries must be left to their mountain-top citadels": there...
...hours. Anyone who watched this grader whip through several ten page papers at the rate of two to five minutes each would have wondered, "Why bother?" Like the person in your photograph this "instructor" did his work in circumstances marked by the distraction of excited talk and loud laughter and disruptive groans, punctuated by the clatter of dishes. I suppose those of us who pay $15,000 a year for a Harvard undergraduate degree can at least be glad that the Greenhouse Cafe is both without the video machines in Tommy's Lunch and its local patrons...
...suppose today he could belong to both clubs and nobody would notice," he concluded to ripples of laughter and gentle hissing from the audience...
Children's kickball games spill over like laughter in the streets. By East European standards, goods are bountiful, and by Western standards, they are inexpensive. The air is foul, the water sparkling, the meals cheap, the service considerate. Along with the shiny gold pins that are always the most valued currency at the Olympics, people have been exchanging stories of local kindnesses. "When our flight connected in Zagreb," says Sandra Knapp of Indianapolis, "eight of us with the U.S.O.C. went to change money, and the banker made us all come to his office for cheese and brandy...