Word: referents
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Titles in this show conspicuously, though ostensibly coincidentally, refer to a consciousness or mental presence. Emily Cheng's "The Most Violent of all Pleasures" and Heather Hobler-Keene's "Memory of Lost Thought" presuppose the Hegelian "Idea." Adding a gloss of abstraction, they are not merely descriptive. Yet there are no titles or names on the gallery walls, defying the instinct to seek verbal direction...
...fall-fashion season in Cambridge, and the ever sartorially-challenged John Harvard is back in the Square arrayed in the latest imperial duds. The "dud" to which I refer, of course, being the building proposed for Mt. Auburn Street between the Fox Club and J. Press (News, "Harvard Architecture Stands As a Testament To the Times...
Other rules changes under the heading of "Meeting Etiquette" call for a "courteous and respectful tone" during meetings and require members to refer to each other in the third person, rather than by direct address, and also to call one another by their last names, in order to "promote a formal atmosphere...
...easy trying to write or edit stories in the newsroom of The Harvard Crimson. Just tonight, for example, I had to listen to M. Douglas O'Malley '01 and Mark J. Ambinder '01 (as the news editors like to refer to people) quibble about who was going to win the World Series...
Many mothers shift between home and office several times in the course of their child-rearing years in a process called "sequencing," a term coined by sociologist and author Arlene Rossen Cardozo to refer to the phenomenon of having it all--career, family and marriage--but not all at once...