Word: scholarshipped
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...proper for a woman to be a virgin, but it is not desirable in a man. Our society considers a promiscuous man a stud, the picture of machismo, while a promiscuous woman is viewed as a whore, slut or harlot, the antithesis of femininity. With the help of feminist scholarship, we have come to recognize this hypocrisy and have slowly been making headway in eradicating this double standard. Our recent enlightenment demonstrates that recognition of these double standards is the first step in reversing them...
...Harvard, a place known for its scholarship, it is ironically all too easy to forget the academic and the intellectual. Extracurricular activities dwarf course work, and students try to outdo each other by discussing how little they studied for a midterm or how few pages of the reading they did. Over my three and a half years here, I admit that I have been guilty more often than I would like of sacrificing course work on the altar of newspaper duties or somnolence...
...black lower-middle-class family in 1957. The play revolves around three themes: sports, death and (not surprisingly) the image of fences. Sports provides a major point of contention in the family. Troy's son Corey (Dahni-El Giles '99) wants to play football and win a scholarship to college. But Troy was discriminated against while playing baseball when he was younger and his bitterness clouds his dealings with...
...syllables a prescient nom de guerre, literally meaning "little peace," an augury of both tumult and relief. In 1920, at the age of 16, Deng left his rural home deep inland in Sichuan for the port of Shanghai. There he learned basic French and won a scholarship for a work-study program in France. "We felt that China was weak, and we wanted her to be strong," he later said of his generation of students. "So we went to the West to learn...
DIED. LEO ROSTEN, 88, author best known for his works celebrating Jewish culture; in New York City. His definitive reference work, The Joys of Yiddish, published in 1968, introduced readers to colorful and now common terms like schlemiel, schmaltz and chutzpah. A native of Poland, Rosten seasoned his scholarship with humor, which he called "one of the requirements for sanity...