Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...create a common vantage point from which to study the readings, unconsciously presenting an "us vs. them" attitude which ignores Harvard's much-touted respect for diversity. Students generally refer to the characters in the stories and the subjects of the nonfiction books as "those people," a disconcerting phrase that emphasizes the distance between different ethnic and socio-economic groups. This makes those students who don't fit into the white middle class very uncomfortable...
...would feel better about going to the dance if as much money was going to China as possible," said Eugene Kaji '84, a Cabot House tutor who was president of the Asian American Association as an undergraduate. "The way the dance is being advertised and the ambiguity of the phrase `some proceeds' causes a lot of skepticism among the students...
...order to get working telephones in every bedroom, we had to run wires under all the doors. That sounds easy; we'd heard the phrase "spaghetti thin" and assumed that telephone wire was at least as thin as spaghetti...
...Some people say that socialism must have ahuman face," he said. "To that phrase, my responseis that Frankenstein's [monster] had a human facetoo...
Although they usually don't phrase it quite so bluntly, most liberals believe that the answer to both of these questions is "yes." Therein lies the cause of their recent electoral misfortunes...