Word: particularity
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...quickly understand that nothing good is going to come out of this mess for Andy. He, of course, does not catch the drift toward disaster. Coolly smiling, eerily calm almost to the end, he keeps manufacturing work-arounds that, naturally, continue to make matters worse for him. In particular, he misjudges the towering and implacable rage for vengeance that comes upon his father...
...Harvard’s discriminatory history is hardly happenstance. For most of the last century, our undergraduate curriculum has encouraged such uniformity more or less explicitly. Since any coherent program of undergraduate education entails choosing a particular set of values, skills, and understandings that college graduates ought to share, it will necessarily exclude any student who, due to race, sexual orientation, or personal taste, disagrees with that mission. It’s this exclusivity that has torn at the cloth of our community, giving the Harvard man enough wiggle room to propagate his hateful, antique notions...
...long as we cling to any particular notion of what “learned men” ought to know or how they ought to act, we exclude the diversity of undergraduates who beg to differ. Striving to breed an army of investment bankers unencumbered by a clear set of values and a basic understanding of the society in which they live is, after all, much more politically correct. With the passage of our new undergraduate curriculum, the Faculty have finally woken up to what any good relativist could have told you decades ago: Harvard’s curriculum...
...members to have a deciding hand in the programming. “HRO votes on the repertoire we play, so our season really reflects what the orchestra loves,” says Christine L. Barron ’09, violinist and president of the HRO. “In particular, ‘The Planets’ and Mahler’s 5th were among the highest voted pieces.”THE REIGN OF YANNATOSThe orchestra as it appears now was firmly shaped by Yannatos’s arrival at Harvard, which came at a troubled time...
...dilapidated loveseat and gaze into each other’s eyes for a bit. She looks like she’s going to eat him; he blinks a lot. On-and-off ensemble member Neko Case perches wistfully on an antique chair and belts out to no one in particular, tapping her sneakers and sipping a magenta drink. As the kids touch, their hands slowly turn from black-and-white to color, a la “Pleasantville.” Suddenly, thick Technicolor goo starts spurting from every corner of the house—wall paintings, equestrian statues, baskets...