Word: self
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHEN I wrote the editorial which appeared in the March 9 issue of The Crimson, entitled "Minority Group Self Segregation," I never expected the sort of reaction it prompted...
...because they are unable to view matters as varying in degree--they apparently lack depth perception. The co-presidents of the Asian American Association associated my editorial with an attitude that dictates, "you are Asian and so am I, so I shouldn't eat with you because that is self-segregating...
...that there is anything wrong with purely social activities. It is just that that when minorities begin not only to eat together, but also to dance, play board games, put on productions, engage in sports, study and take study breaks together, then they have enclosed themselves in a self-sufficient community, absent of whites or other minorities. I do not think that this is what minorities, or whites, should strive...
...Panamanians turned out in large numbers to cast their ballots, Endara had reason to be confident: polls showed he was favored over Duque by at least 2 to 1 and perhaps by as much as 3 to 1. But Noriega apparently deluded himself into believing that Duque, a self- styled populist, could win with only minimal cheating...
Parent's secrets are mainly sexual, a subject that arouses an immediate interest but can be hard to sustain for 500 pages. Happily, Theroux's hero is a man of ironic intelligence and amusing self-awareness. He believes that comedy is the "highest expression of truth" and, conversely, that the funniest things are frequently the truest. This makes for considerable humor arising from grim situations. Moreover, Parent's wanderlust means a frequent change of scenery and a liberating sense that, as the playwright Tom Stoppard put it, every exit is an entrance somewhere else...