Word: nameless
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Sure enough, Old School (Knopf; 195 pages) soon begins revealing the painful realities beneath its chivalric trappings. The nameless narrator, an outsider desperate to attain the "careless gentility" of his well-born schoolmates, makes a terrible mistake and is expelled. The "sure and finished" teachers prove to be mortals with broken marriages and sham credentials. Recent graduates fizzle out or die young...
Last week, Harvard Right to Life (HRL), an anti-choice student group, set up an approved display on the lawn in front of Science Center featuring 440 miniature American flags to represent the 4,400 abortions performed each day in the United States. On Tuesday, nameless opponents defaced the display and on Wednesday all of the flags were uprooted. In recent weeks, those who disagree with HRL’s message have also torn-down many posters from its current “Women Deserve Better” campaign in the Houses and the Yard. At Harvard, where free speech...
...every last player on Harvard’s roster loves playing hockey with Kenny Turano. About his only flaw is that he roots for the Yankees. (He’s the only New York fan on the entire team, save a member of the coaching staff who shall remain nameless as part of the local Yankee Fan Protection Program...
...superficial criteria without ever having to face any of the judged in person. On the “facemash” website, we were all masters of our own domains of rejection and approval, and we never had to deal with anything more socially challenging than a parade of nameless, awkward registration-day snapshots...
...because the word apartheid is never uttered in his novels, and the settings are not necessarily South African. In 1980, when Coetzee's masterpiece Waiting for the Barbarians was published, I was in the U.S., living among people who took it as a surreal cowboy story set on some nameless frontier and wondered what all the fuss was about. For me, and for many white South Africans, it was an unbearably painful allegory about our daily lives and moral dilemmas, a book that engaged on a psychic level so deep and compelling that reading it left one dazed and hypnotized...