Word: overtness
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...Though these recent attacks have been directed toward the Asian American community, no community at Harvard has been exempt from overt discrimination over the past few years. The Quad incident, the vandalizing of the Chabad House Menorah, and other incidents affecting the Latino and queer communities are only a few of too many examples of individuals being marginalized at Harvard. While each incident may represent a minor, isolated instance of bigotry, collectively these events reveal a deeper, systemic problem: Discrimination still laces our society and crosses lines of race, class, gender, sexuality, religion, and creed...
...BGLT initiative and the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus,” says Navarro, who also notes that producers hope to meet with members of BGLTSA before finalizing their choices. Despite these indications of the show’s support of sexual diversity, Eleganza will not include any overt references to gay and/or lesbian couples or outright displays of intimacy. “They aren’t going to be holding hands or kissing each other,” Navarro says. “But we want to show that it is okay for two men to be intimate...
...Within the ICA’s walls, Fairey used mixed media to preserve nuance as his art moved from street to gallery. Glimpses of newspaper and posters show through the paint, complicating the work’s more overt messages. Standing beneath his largest inside work to date, which the ICA commissioned for “Supply and Demand,” Fairey said, “It combines the scale and presence of street art with the depth of what I call fine art.” Countering questions with a humor that also contains a certain biting honesty...
...study in the Jan. 9 issue of the journal Science presents strong evidence that even people who aspire to tolerance - who would consider themselves nonracist - still harbor unconscious biases powerful enough to prevent them from confronting overt racists or from being upset by other people's racist behavior. The authors say the results suggest attitudes so deeply ingrained that protective legislation and affirmative-action programs are required to overcome them. The results may even offer clues as to how other societies have spiraled into genocide...
...Anger), Pinter was not a product of the Oxford-Cambridge factory for leaders in politics, industry and the arts. Being neither born nor bred into the upper class, these writers made class their theme: the resentment and suspicion the unders had for the uppers, which Pinter stripped of overt political references and flipped into the power that one person exercises with cool brutality over another. The TIME description of his script for the 1963 film The Servant - that it was "acid splashed into the wound of class distinction" - could apply to much of Pinter's work: an outsider's unblinking...