Word: powerfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...arts festival whose purpose is to galvanize the arts community at Harvard. A grand production that stems from the dedicated efforts of over 2000 people, Arts First is the realized dream of a shared vision for the arts--both on campus and off. Producer Myra A. Mayman views "the power of the arts as bringing people together" and allowing them to "take risks and think creatively." She values the festival not only for embodying these aspects of art, but also for creating a common thread that links the Harvard community together in important ways...
...skit--which recounted students' protests against the University and lampooned the administration for denying students a seat at the "table of power"--attracted small crowds of about 20 students...
...lawn in the Yard is a deeply, powerfully invested symbolic vehicle of meaning. It represents Harvard's economic and cultural imperialism, its sexist and elitist tendencies and its dichotomous aspiration to identify with both the British Oxbridge educational model and the American Way of life. The small "green span" we constantly traverse wields at least as much power--albeit of a different sort--as the Fed Head himself. Who knew...
...Oxbridge's lawns were sites of power assertion; their ideological transfer here brings resonances of sexist structural inequality into our own Yard (see Lawn Lib). The grass has other implications as well, which manifest themselves most clearly when contrasted with the unique position the lawn has assumed within the American Dream...
...similar radio station to broadcast to Yugoslavia. But winning the war--and this is a war, despite the semantic contortions of NATO and the Clinton administration--will take more than that. Suppression of the independent media is a crucial element of Milosevic's grip on power, and as long as Serb citizens are unaware of what their army is doing in Kosovo, there is little chance they will stop supporting Milosevic...