Word: meant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...land ownership and commemorating the Aborigines, whose way of life was being inexorably destroyed by white farmers like him. No painter in Australia ever committed himself as wholeheartedly to recording the life of Aborigines as, say, American artist George Catlin did to that of Indians. But Glover clearly meant The Last Muster of the Aborigines at Risdon, 1836, to be a muted elegy: those black figures, dwarfed by the huge and almost artificially sinuous gum trees, were in fact about to be removed to an offshore island...
These kinds of practical concerns are reminders that Boylston's renovation was meant to address academic functionality in addition to aesthetic improvements. The new building houses the departments of Linguistics and Comparative Literature in addition to Classics and Romance Languages. "I think the trend towards housing related departments together is a good idea," says Linguistics concentrator Becky Tinio '00, who is thrilled that her department finally left its temporary home on Dunster Street. In the basement, Comparative Literature displaced the language lab and the media production center, both of which are now less convenient to the departments in Boylston Hall...
...same way that all her characters choose to retreat from society to hide their lurid pasts, Barker opts for layer upon layer of density. Perhaps some things are not meant to be understood. Like Luke's bizarre join-the-dots form of pornography, the strength lies in what is actually missing--to be wide open is to be exposed, to be "wide open as a can of worms." Revelation, for the reader as much as the characters, is best in limited quantities...
...than what you'd find on 10 randomly selected pages of the Riverside Edition. With men playing women, pathetic melodrama, the overuse of gaudy props (i.e. silly string which makes several repeat appearances as a vomit substitute) one begins to wonder if this isn't Shakespeare as it was meant to be. A frequent object of ridicule throughout the show are Shakespeare companies that fret about making Shakespeare accessible to modern audiences. The show suggests that it is not Shakespeare, but the standard notions of how Shakespeare should be produced that are inaccessible. Men dressed as men, women as women...
...letter explained that Harvard's financial aid increase in September meant a $2,000 scholarship payoff for every student now receiving aid. Students were offered a choice--apply that windfall towards reducing student loans, job requirements or both...