Word: reasonings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...number of other sports, among them the most successful athletic programs at Harvard, have similar, and even more serious, complaints. Fans of Harvard sailing, golf, squash, wrestling and women's rugby have good reason to be proud of their team's performances. They are equally justified in feeling short-changed by The Crimson's infrequent, ill-informed and unpunctual coverage of their respective sports...
...other hand, the history lessons of 'In the Name of the Father' come at you fast, inaccurate and out of control, which is reason enough to skip this movie even if it does have Serious Actors Daniel Day-Lewis and Emma Thompson -- especially if your English friends are joining you later...
...believe that there is another reason as well. People in the '90s are suddenly being overloaded with information. Between the Internet and the proliferation of beepers and laptops and cell phones, many are constantly getting input and information. Most people have to behave like detectives in order to sift out the useful information from the useless. Similarly, the world of noir is a world of detectives, a world where mere information cannot help, where the world is a labyrinth and the city a maze. In increasingly urban, increasingly over-loaded lives, noir reflects the way that individuals are beginning...
...only in constructed space--that much is obvious--but that he or she could be living in any number of alternate variations of the present condition. Moreover, it becomes stifling, where it was once comforting, to conceive of the city as a unified whole, the Venice of light and reason as opposed to the wilds of Cyprus, the Greek agora standing as a proud refuge in a wilderness where only beasts reside...
...arguments in favor of the proposed ban are inadequate. He claims that "the general trend of society would support [a ban]." Has Harvard suddenly become a place that blindly follows the dictates of society? He also cites students' calls to purchase more exercise equipment as a reason to initiate a ban--this is downright silly. Suddenly, we have to trade acquiring more treadmills at the MAC for our personal freedoms? Eric Nelson's observation that we are on our way to adulthood is a good one, and I sincerely hope that he maintains his fight against such condescending whims...