Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There are many arguments for being well-rounded. The one that I have come to respect most: If you don't pay at least cursory attention to the wide array of your personality attributes, you will invariably be consumed with a desire to exercise your most neglected talents. While, granted, they are perhaps neglected because you don't happen to have much talent at all in that area, if these aspects of your identity are never taken out for a twirl, they will sit like a sulky wallflower in the dance of your...
However, being a minority also implies a sort of power. In a country in which identity politics have quickly become salient (much to the dismay of many conservatives), minorities have learned to organize to demand respect and acknowledgement. Being a minority has meant learning to become visible after being invisible for so many years, something that conservatives in this country and at this institution have never had to contend with...
...such quirky traditions need strong sources, why do they continue? Perhaps because Harvard students are, in some sense, natural conservatives: they respect the age and mystique of their surroundings, find even godless festivals inviting, and continue baseless customs and pure traditions as a result. If this is true, one need not worry about House character which consists of the various traditions which separate one House from another. House community, however, is a horse of a different color...
...somewhat unsettling to see that thrill seeking to the point of looking death in the eye is replacing more valuable pursuits--responsibility for others, respect, tolerance and religion. WERNER RADTKE Paderborn, Germany...
...cool he thinks you are. "I ask the following: 'Is this someone I want to hang out and have beers with after work and pass up spending time with my wife?' I'm going to be an active investor. So I'd better get along with you and respect...