Word: ouring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eating a meal in a House dining hall here has its points of tension, as does getting the daily mail from the mailbox. Our lives here at Harvard can be very complex. That is undeniable. Yet compared to most of the world's people, we lead easy existences, and we...
It is understandable that some students have been frightened or upset by COCA's recent tactics. But their fear and anger should not be ultimately directed at COCA. Rather, we should be broad-sighted enough to realize that the real terror resides not in COCA's actions but in the...
Our anger should be directed toward the system that encourages us to get angry at the slightest disruptions in our daily routine, while it simultaneously funds the killings in El Salvador. COCA is doing a good job of laying bare the hypocrisy of that system.
2. Cooper fears an "intensely nationalistic Germany." Having lived in Germany for 19 years, and in the U.S. for four, I can safely say that German nationalism, compared to American nationalism, is miniscule, if not non-existent. In contrast to the America of 1989, we do not spend our time...
But there are also some strong dissenters. Novelist John Updike, for example, despite receiving favorable mention from Wolfe, is not amused by the manifesto. "It's the sort of thing ((Wolfe)) says," he complains. "It seems sort of self-serving and superficially felt. It seems to me that isms, including...