Word: loom
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...amazed at times by my capacity for pettiness. Small problems of the day--response papers, midterms, and a dozen other things--loom disturbingly large in my undergraduate mind plowing through school with too little reflection on the larger matters of life. As I've spent more time with "regular people" not affiliated with Harvard, I've noticed how we undergraduates change the level of our discourse profoundly (and perhaps subconsciously) when speaking to those outside our collegiate circle. We realize the triviality of our usual gripes, and discuss something other than consulting, recruiting and paper deadlines. We move away from...
...dull red walls of the Kremlin loom large in the center of Moscow as a reminder of this country's powerful Russian past. Yet as one walks away from the Kremlin and down Tverskaya Boulevard--Moscow's main drag--one wonders whether the Kremlin still serves its original purpose. Built as a fortress in the 1150s, it was supposed to protect Moscow from foreign invasion...
While America should rightly applaud itself for the advancements in opening educational and economic opportunities to blacks, the ominous cloud of racism does loom overhead. You can be the wealthiest, most highly educated, most successful black person in the world, but as long as you are constantly forced to view your wealth, education or success in the context of your socially-constructed blackness, substantial progress has yet to be made against racism and white supremacy. As Malcolm X put it, "You just can't stab a man in the back nine inches, pull the knife out three inches, and call...
...monuments of long ago still loom over Sevilla, so do the events of today. Two weeks ago, a politician roughly the equivalent of a deputy mayor and his wife were killed in the early morning hours in a street not far from the cathedral. The Basque terrorist group ETA (don't ask me what it stands for--I'm still a foreigner here) claimed responsibility for the assassination. While terrorism is, unfortunately, not unknown in the U.S., we are still accustomed to pinning it on a psychopath or a small group of fanatics. The idea of a terrorist group established...
...chugging, chunky guitar work that pulls you in and pushes the tune along. It's a cry of independence, of sorts, from an overbearing lover. "Maybe you can keep me from ever being happy," she sings, "but you're not going to stop me/ from having fun." In Loom DiFranco again unleashes kinetic guitar riffs. And again the theme is intrusive love: "You are the one-way glass/ that watches me/ standing at the bank...