Word: romanticized
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These days few ethical tenets go unchallenged by a world increasingly suspicious of absolutes. Yet in contemporary Western culture, almost everyone from the most progressive to the most conservative, is willing to accept that romantic love for another person is an absolute good capable of redeeming even the most lost...
Even here at Harvard we find a reluctance to progress from "Philadelphia's" feelings of sympathy to those of romantic empathy. For example, Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals, like all of Shakespeare's plays, is performed by an all male cast. But while Shakespeare never shied away from displays of...
Unlike his bouncy The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Hijuelos' latest novel is a slow dance, an elegy to a cleaning woman, that continues the author's celebration of his Cuban roots. His Lydia moves with stoic grace through decades of caring for a sickly husband, guiding her children...
WHO SHOULD WIN: This is a tough one, butI'm calling Shakespeare in Love. Maybe thisfilm doesn't have the lofty philosophicalaspirations of its bloodstained competitors, butit succeeds more completely, on its own terms,than any other film in the running. And it's fun!Shakespeare, in my book, is...
And dormcest takes less organization than an average relationship. It also allows for more spontaneity, which makes relationships. more romantic. The prevalence of dormcest just shows how little time we have. Unfortunately, like everything else at Harvard, the more time a person puts into a relationship, the better (and healthier...