Word: retreater
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During Glee Club's football concerts or itsnational tours, which take place each spring,alums sporting traditional Glee Club ties, awardedto new members at the group's annual fall retreat,come to the stage to sing "Fair Harvard" and otherCollege anthems...
...same way that all her characters choose to retreat from society to hide their lurid pasts, Barker opts for layer upon layer of density. Perhaps some things are not meant to be understood. Like Luke's bizarre join-the-dots form of pornography, the strength lies in what is actually missing--to be wide open is to be exposed, to be "wide open as a can of worms." Revelation, for the reader as much as the characters, is best in limited quantities...
...nearly an old leftist, certainly no paragon of virtue, to stand in judgement of anybody else? Involvement in history and retreat from engagement make us accomplices. And yet, the ideas of the neo-Conmen are so smugly, so self-righteously and militantly stated, their entire stance is so triumphalist, that little fellow-felling with these people is possible. They do not seem to acknowledge their human frailty or fallibility. They are not making Americans more cozily familial or deeply religious or keenly responsive to the needs and obligations of society. They led to a fence outside Laramie--and then, what...
Fans sorrowed to see her retreat, but if she had to hide out, at least she hid in a studio. The fruits of these three years now arrive in a new album titled Is This Desire? Harvey clearly wishes both to restate to the world what she can do and, as the title implies, to interrogate where music has taken her so far, and where she might still be headed...
...suspect that root of feminist objections to the clubs really lies not on any principled grounds, but in the material dissatisfaction with the fact that men have big fancy houses to retreat to and women do not. This may be unfair, but we cannot prevent people from enjoying more luxurious undergraduate experiences if furnished by their private resources...