Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ironically, Mia herself admits that she did not get a chance to "test the water" at Harvard. She may have entered her freshman year with an open mind, but even then, the pull of performing was too strong to resist...
...Cruz's determination to resist assimilation at Harvard has not been easy. "Remy is his own person. He isn't like other students who have assimilated into the cultural mainstream. He held back and that has caused personal difficulties," explains Coles...
...President Bok has done an enormous amount of work fighting for student financial aid, and the work he has done has began to pay off," said Shattuck. During the last year, Bok and Shattuck have repeatedly lobbied the Senate to resist the Reagan Administration's efforts to slash aid for higher education...
Harvard cannot seem to resist the urge to throw itself a big party every 50 years of so. The first such fun-fest occurred in 1836, when 1500 old chaps endured rain in Harvard Yard to drink wine and and hear Oliver Wendell Holmes sing a song in honor of the College's 200th anniversary...
...graphically portrayed are merely subtly suggestive, and in many ways more chilling for their uncertainty. One could say that Smooth Talk is the sort of movie that everyone would like if he just let himself get into it. But it's also the sort of movie we want to resist--we'd rather not believe in Connie's naivete or Arnold's sangfroid, and we don't wish to remember that growing up was as difficult for us as it is for Connie. We only stop resisting when the surreal elements, like Arnold's maniacal unctuousness, take over. And when...