Word: lende
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these things are true. If you're smart and witty, you'll win fans. And shy people can relax a little. The network makes it easier to confess a crush or admit a grudge. The Internet offers a respite from the social ineptness of Harvard life. and it can lend people a modicum of self-confidence and self-esteem that's not easy to find around here...
...fort against rabid Continetal philosphers clutching copies of Sartre, Foucault, Kuhn and Rorty? If so, these intellectual roues deserve much adulation. Actually, Peninsula seems much more interested in debates about homosexuality than abstract issues in epistimology. But, it is in the best tradition of the public intellectual to lend one's mind to social debates of import, so let's see what they...
...Freedom Sessions' first track, "Elsewhere," leads off the album with a much more bluesy feel than McLachlan's other work. The twanging guitars lend to this effect, and some of the words are almost spoken, and much more broken than Fumbling's version of the same...
...overlooking an important obstacle in achieving any sort of meaningful diversity in the Houses: architecture. The old river houses were all designed in a different era to suit a different population of Harvard students. Unlike more typically collegiate dorm-type houses, such as Currier and Mather, they do not lend themselves to students' mingling. The entryway system makes for atomization and isolation between different groups of students. Just from talking to people I know from my house (Eliot) and other houses, many people don't even know people in their own entryway. While hallways do not force people to know...
Marler recounts these events with distinct charm and skill. He uses a breathy, confidential tone for most of the narration, and his stylized hesitations lend a note of naturalness without seeming awkward. When he does assume another voice, as in one monologue imitating a conversation which he overheard at a restaurant, he is equally at ease, building from ordinary chitchat to frantically dramatic pronouncements with subtlety...