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...frats, sororities, and final clubs are coming up with those groups without ostensible Harvard support. Arguably, the latter are more exclusive than HRSFA, the fellowships, and the ethnic organizations, but perhaps if more small social groups won Harvard administrative support, College social life would improve. The more the merrier, and the more likely everyone will find a niche...

Author: By Jannie S. Tsuei, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOT THE ONLY WAY | 4/7/2005 | See Source »

...elevating them to the realm of art. However, defamiliarization worked both ways, Boym argued. As a tool of Stalinist propaganda, art could lend a sense of wonder and exaltation, as in the harvest painting that declared the Stalinist slogan, “Life has become better. Life has become merrier.” The actual subject of the painting, a communal dinner in rural Russia, would itself have been unremarkable. But when metamorphosed into a massive genre painting as a monument to Stalinist benevolence, such a banal, benign subject can take on a sinister power...

Author: By Laura E. Kolbe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fascism's 'Flaming Motor' | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

...think the main reason is just a more the merrier kind of thing,” he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houses To Hold Four-Way Formal | 12/10/2004 | See Source »

...Jewish-Jewish dialogue” next semester. “I think the Jewish-Arab dialogue is something that Jews who are very far on the right would never feel comfortable with,” she says. “The more dialogue, the merrier...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: You Say You Want a Resolution? | 12/4/2003 | See Source »

...gadgets that promise to lift spirits by filling the air with negative ions. In case you have forgotten your high school chemistry, negative ions are charged particles released from H20 molecules when they collide. The air is normally full of them, and some claim the more there are, the merrier everyone is?that negative ions are natural mood enhancers: relieving stress and even inducing weight loss. Manufacturers in recent months have flooded the market with devices that supposedly boost the negative-ion count, ranging from air conditioners and toothbrushes to vacuum cleaners, underwear and dog collars. Manufacturers estimate total annual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Week | 8/11/2002 | See Source »

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