Word: mix
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Arts, the drawing classes outside the curriculum of the VFS department. I think maybe if you're inside the world of Harvard, it must be frustrating that there aren't more course offerings. But from where I stand, on the outside, it looks like a pretty good mix. I'm a great believer in kinds between 18 and 22 getting a rounded education and giving their minds plenty of options and intellectual experiments...
Citing the study, Bok observed in his open letter that "less than 10 percent of minorities report that they do not mix with the whites at meals or in social activities and student organizations, and a majority claim that they often interact in these settings." Nevertheless, and undermining his optimistic perceptions, he concluded that there "is a widespread belief among all students that interchange between members of different racial groups is often characterized by some degree of defensiveness, stereotyping, and occasionally even discriminatory attitudes...
...carefully reasoned address, Rudenstine said he was "not at all unhappy about the complex mix of ethnicity on campus and the debates, sometimes acrimonious, sparked by the interaction of different racial groups." He observed that "the divergent and sometimes conflicting student voices on campus are often signs of vital, even necessary, controversy; of healthy self-asserting; of different but essentially human growth; of jarring but important moments of sudden discussion and self-discovery...
There is a plethora of primal romance in Like Water for Chocolate, set mostly in Mexico's turbulent 1910s. While the eldest sister (mesmerized, of course, by Tita's food) runs off naked to join Zapata's forces of independence, Tita stays at home to mix her own sweet subversion into her food. As the movie proves, the most profound revolutions are the oldest -- the ones women have been cooking up since the cave days...
...bondage and death in a fire storm of desire too long withheld. Viewers need not feel so constrained; they can enjoy the emotional splendor, gasp at the ghosts, cry with as much good cause as Tita. By comparison with this banquet of feelings, most other movies are trail mix...