Word: masks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many students at Harvard hunger for human affection. Some solve the problem by living vicariously through the gossiped lives of others. After all, it is considerably easier to discuss the affections of others than to acknowledge our own. It's likewise less painful to mask our failings in a veil of situational celibacy than to wrestle with the deeper, more troubling lack of human closeness. It doesn't have to be this way. It's springtime, damn...
...play. The set changes were awkward and took too long because the set of each scene was very different from the one before. Director Stephanie Smith '98 attempted to cover up the length and noise that accompany the set changes with well-chosen music, but this didn't completely mask the problems. Janie's phone messages, which begin each scene, were poor in sound quality. They echoed through Beren Hall and were barely understandable for the audience members straining to hear...
...WIRE) BERKELEY, Calif.--University of California Regent Ward Connerly, who pushed forward the university's affirmative action repeal two years ago, now wants to take names off UC applications before they are processed to mask applicants' race...
Reinventing government was once a way to streamline costs, but now conservatives have used the push for sound finance to mask their ideology. Latent behind the rhetoric of efficiency and opportunity that makes up the case for privatization lies an ideology of rugged individualism that is encapsulated by the free market. Social Security is a highly redistributive program that, in old age, seeks to ensure a minimum level of subsistence for all Americans. Privatization may be the solution for garbage collection and management of the Congressional beauty parlor, but it will ruin Social Security precisely because social security...
However, Fenno's recent comments represent an abuse of that privilege. As Professor Nesson noted, instead of using the column as a forum to discuss critical issues, Fenno has abused it as a means of "imposing awful things about other people from behind the mask." The letter from the other professors underscored this point, saying: "Fenno's imaginings are so repugnant and mean-spirited that it is difficult to understand why the Record would publish them...