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...There was a very strong view on the part of C200 that it was time for us to move outward in our ability to share the success of the women who are members," said Susan W. Bird, a member of the C200 executive board and a former president of the organization...
Ethnic groups change from promoting diversity to self-segregating when the individual goal of fostering intragroup friendships becomes the goal of the group. Athletes and actors form friendships by virtue of their common affiliation with a specific team or production, but their raison d'etre is limited by their outward-looking responsibility to play games or put on a show...
This conclusion is both simplistic and unjust. It mistakes an indifference and impatience for tedious classwork with a spiritual malaise and selfish inwardness. These are two very distinct kinds of boredom--and they have very different implications. The first, the indifference, is a particular dissatisfaction, the outward sign that one's mind and one's priorities are elsewhere, for better or worse. The second type of boredom is a sickness. It is totalizing, spiritual and philosophical. College first-years these days are bored in the first sense only; they do not have their minds on their work because they...
...Drexler returned to the floor of her high school formal dance in Aberdeen Township, N.J., where she ate some salad and danced with her boyfriend. Six months later, Drexler, now 19 and known outside her immediate circle by the tabloid sobriquet Prom Mom, is by most accounts maintaining her outward poise. Says a friend, Tim Hoban: "She seems pretty normal...
...extraordinary 1994 commencement address at Harvard, he spoke of the "barriers in my soul" that had prevented him from making connections with others. "I suppose it was a form of cynicism on my part," he said. "The brokenness that separates the cynic from others is the outward sign of an inner division between the head and the heart. There is something icily and unnaturally intellectual about the cynic. This isolation of intellect from feelings and emotions is the essence of his condition...