Word: reconnects
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...closer analysis of why people come to reunions, however, makes it pretty clear why this would be the case for LGBT Harvard-Radcliffe graduates of a “certain age.” People basically come back to reunions because they want to reconnect with Harvard, their classmates, and their younger selves. The idea of such reconnection can be quite unappealing for an LGBT graduate...
...first-ever Harvard LGBT Reunion is so important. Akin to similar LGBT reunions held at other Ivy League schools such as Dartmouth as well as those for other Harvard alumni subgroups such as African-Americans, Harvard’s first-ever LGBT Reunion offers the university a chance to reconnect with a group of alumni who are often alienated from the university and wary of attending its events. It offers Harvard the chance to show how it has changed for the better and that the Harvard of today is a very different place than the one many LGBT alumni remember...
...irony or camp. Director Diane Paulus says her young cast (most of them--including Jonathan Groff, a Tony nominee for Spring Awakening, and Will Swenson--are better singers than the originals) has gained a new appreciation of those distant counterculture years. "I think people are desperately longing to reconnect," she says, "to a time when you as a citizen felt like you could make a change in your country." Oskar Eustis, the Public Theater's artistic director and the guiding spirit behind the production, likes to hammer home the parallels between the Vietnam protests of Hair...
Longing to Reconnect...
...sense of permanence but also a chance for self-expression. In June, Mitch Stripling, an emergency planner who recently moved to New York City, printed cards with cell-phone, e-mail and descriptor ("neo Victorian calling card thingy") info for his 10-year college reunion in an effort to reconnect with people he knew he wouldn't have a chance to speak with at length. "I wanted to get away from the whole status thing at reunions, so a business logo didn't feel right," says Stripling, whose card was a buzz-generating hit at Williams College. "Having...