Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...student looking for support and appropriate medical attention following sexual assault should search beyond the walls of University Health Services (UHS) and away from most administrative support, say two Harvard undergraduate women who were assaulted last spring...
...Harvard Hall. Instead, take them to an overcrowded section in Sever. Try to find a core class being taught by a befuddled TF with no particular expertise in the subject matter. Ask questions he can't answer. Enjoy as the discussion circles endlessly while self-important idiots pontificate in search of participation points. Afterwards, wait in line...
...prison after refusing to testify against this con man and only began to speak of the gross injustice Because this peculiar, intractable lawyer is the heroine of Janet Malcolm's new journalistic essay, The Crime of Sheila McGough, the book has a fascinating mystery at its heart: the search for truth in the shadows of the legal system. Malcolm is an excellent and witty tour guide through this material, some of the densest thickets of bureaucratic confusion this side of Kafka. After all, McGough's client was, in Malcolm's evocative retelling, a veritable genius...
...might these two be? They are participants in one of the world's great traditions, perhaps one of its few universal traditions: the search for spiritual truth. Divinely Inspired: Images of Mystics and Mendicantsis a small but eloquent exhibit tucked away on the second floor of the Sackler Museum that provides a glimpse of the Different religious conceptions of non-Western cultures. The figures portrayed in the exhibit are on their way to awareness and enlightenment, while the exhibit itself attempts do make these spiritual quests into a coherent and interesting ensemble, and if does so rather well. The paintings...
...beauty is not what makes the exhibit so evocative and thought-provoking. Divinely Inspiredis more about the seekers, and not so much about what they seek. The collection shows a very human side to this quest for enlightenment and tells the story of the actual morals who contemplate and search for divine truth. A simple, modest sketch of a man bowing in prayer provides a solemn contrast to elaborate paintings of wise teachers in rich robes. Sometimes there is no need for ornamentation. One particularly striking work is a black and white photograph of three ascetics, men who practice strict...