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...about their sexual status and have kept their virginity in a closet. When I got into Harvard I told myself I wouldn't have to worry about any pressure to have sex. I saw Harvard as an opportunity to live as a male virgin without worrying about the sexual peer pressure that would occur at other, less enlightened campuses. I was wrong: the overbearing machismo is very much alive at our fair campus...
...children interviewed for Steinberg's study came from diverse socio-economic and racial backgrounds, but experienced similar feelings of peer pressure which discouraged them from their studies...
...must transform reform efforts from widening opportunities to increasing parental and peer involvement," Steinberg said...
...varying pronunciations of Obi-Wan Kenobi and the planet Alderaan. The invocation to "trust your feelings" seems a woozy echo of the '67 Summer of Love, not the '77 summer of Wars, but Alec Guinness carries himself with the majesty of a Jedi knight and an acting peer. The climactic dogfight, copied in a quillion arcade games, has thrust and logic; it's the clearest, most potent narrative section of the movie...
Climbing the soon-to-be-carpeted fire-escape staircases to the third floor, the dark rooms are illuminated by "home-plate" shaped windows which peer towards the ivory towers of Dunster and Lowell...