Word: safe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the obscure locations, the Rear Window is well worth checking out. For one night, leave your Videosmith card at home, leave the squalor of your own room. Escape from the wretched Golden-Glo bogus butter and crowds of large cinemas, and the safe, seen-them-all-before programming of most repertory moviehouses is just a T ride away. It's not really so far from your front door to the Rear Window...
...Rosenthal may hit the cabin roof. For good reason, therefore, Federal Aviation Regulations require that airline passengers wear seatbelts during takeoff and landing and whenever the pilot, expecting of encountering turbulence, turns on the seatbelt sign. This isn't just "stuff I think"; it is stuff that every safe pilot and passenger knows. William E, Meyer, Jr, '88 President, Harvard Flying Club
...waited for the rally to end and the march to begin, I realized that the objective here was less easy to define. Although those around me were already starting to chant, "What do we want? Safe streets!," it seemed that safe streets, no more date rape, and stopping violence against women were all unattainable goals--as easily reached as saving the whales or ending...
...shoulder. My roommate had caught up with me and she grinned as she slipped her arm through mine. As we walked along together, I suddenly knew that there was a very concrete reason for my participation in this apparently futile demonstration. I wanted my roommate to feel safe as she came back from the Quad or returned books to a library late at night. I wanted her to be able to go anywhere at any time without fear. And I wanted that same freedom of movement for myself...
...absence of fear, of fear that cripples movement and restricts freedom, is worth fighting for. We strengthen ourselves by asserting our unassailable right to live lives untouched by threat of violence, even if a nighttime march will not achieve safe streets, even if the night cannot yet be taken back...