Word: referents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would seem that, contrary to the calls of supporters of ordered choice in the housing lottery debate, who continually refer to the University's concessions to P.C. notions of "diversity" in defiance of its long tradition of house character, history is on the side of total randomization. Indeed, it is surprising that it has taken this long to bring about a change that seems to have been built in to the houses in the first place. Wrote President Lowell...
...nice for the Square to possess "character." But "character" is too often used as a euphemism to refer to the undefined, amorphous quality possessed only by shabby and inefficient businesses...
...refer to a news story in The Crimson's issue dated Friday, December 2, entitled, President Remains Secluded. Harvard Spokesperson Says "There is Nothing to Report...
...word racism has degenerated to being a mere ritual term of abuse and self-pity, part of the Kabuki of manipulation. Any grownup knows there is racism in America. There is racism almost everywhere in the world. The Chinese refer to Africans as hei gwei, or "black devils." (They refer to whites, by the way, as "white devils.") The Chinese were used as virtual slaves in the American West during the 19th century. In Egypt (which many African Americans embrace as the founding mother of black civilization), even people with moderately dark skins refer to themselves as "white...
...Orrin, Jesse, Alfonse and the rest of Satan's motley crew make their glib, self-satisfied speeches this week, I am now convinced that "diabolical" is too kind a word to describe the New Congressional Order. Perhaps ex-President Bush's "thousand points of light" have come to refer to the remaining true Democrats amidst the all-encompassing night of Republicanism -- tiny candle-flames providing only a little illumination in the face of so much darkness...