Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...behold." Speeding along the highway between downtown offices and suburban homes, living in rooms with incredible views, we will be sheltered from America's latent racism, sexism, homophobia, poverty and moral uncertainty. It's really there. And unless we remember that many among us live sad lives of quiet desperation--and that we are who we are because someone loved us, cared for us and lent us a guiding hand--then our entire education will have been for naught...
Like many of my classmates, I have been tempted to linger. Harvard is an idyllic world, blessed with stately architecture, brilliant mind, and quiet optimism. But then I think of California, and the familiar streets near my house, and the sun blinking off the ocean, and the grandeur of the Central Valley's grain fields, and everything else I love about that land out west. And I realize that what I thought was a coming home to Harvard was in fact an exploration: the kind T.S. Eliot '09 describes in his "Four Quartets" when he writes: "We shall not cease...
...quiet if you don't know her, but to her best friends she's kind of crazy," says Kelly Black--co-captain of the Harvard women's basketball team--about teammate Allison Feaster...
...Allison's quiet about her confidence, but it oozes from her," says junior Karun Grossman. "She's still very vocal, but she's always cool and collected...
...people who don't know her, she comes across as shy and quiet," Black says. "She's a very determined person, so whatever she does, be it argue with someone or study for something, she always comes across very confidently. If she wants to do something, she's going...