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...inequitable" and that it encourages competitiveness among freshmen seeking admission to oversubscribed Houses. Their greatest problem, according to John Baker '74, James Downey '74, and David Johnson '74, has been convincing the staff that they are not questioning the people making the decisions or any past decision per se. They are questioning the principles underlying the decision-making process...
...sense of meaninglessness, with a sense that whatever we're doing helps no one, including ourselves, and that each person is more interested in the preservation of his or her ego than in his or her contribution to the community. This is not an indictment of Harvard students per se; it is a sketch of the spirit of American society today, a spirit resulting from the deliberate, persistent attempt to preserve the economic, social and political status quo at all costs...
...racist, it would protest the meritocracy per se. Whether the lower classes were white, yellow, black or red would not make a damn bit of difference to SDS or to anyone who is concerned about the worth of human beings instead of skin colors. The position of SDS--were it honest--would be to protest human oppression even if all the oppressed were of one race...
...defending himself, Ismaël told the court: "I enjoyed myself when I felt like enjoying myself. I did everything that is normal for a married man. My wife was crabby, sulking and egoistic." The woman judge, Marie-Thérèse Chesnelong, disagreed. Observed she: "Mme. Franconville claims that her husband, despite his advanced age, showed a devouring sexual appetite, considering his spouse an object at his complete, total and permanent disposal." Judge Chesnelong said that Ismaëls conduct ran "from tenderness to the most refined bestiality. He could not pass near his spouse without trying...
Epic Gesture. What the paintings of Marie-Thérése are to pleasure, the portraits of Dora Maar that cluster round Guernica and continue through World War II are to pain. One cannot look at the terrifying, dislocated features of Weeping Woman, 1937 (42), or Picasso's cat tearing up a live bird (46), without recognizing them as indictments of war. The climax of Picasso's concern was of course Guernica, 1937. This enormous canvas was Picasso's counterpart to Goya's Third of May and Delacroix's Liberty Guiding the People...