Word: self
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people who live in poverty. The same can be said of Harvard. At a time when university administrators and alumni donors are busy celebrating the accumulation of great wealth, we would do well to remember that several thousand workers in our midst share neither the wealth nor the self-indulgence it so easily inspires...
...encourage "gathering around" for shared commensality, and the prominence of the salad bar (and the way it violently disrupts the unified space) proves that this space is for eating, not chatting. The colonnade separates this from the "private" space, which is filled with individual tables that are each self-contained universes of intimacy...
...face it: Comparatively speaking of course, the Harvard student body is not one that frequently pulls in to the full service lane...so it stands to reason that if you want to fill 'er up you might have to settle for a bit of the old self-serve...
Reading Nerve--the Web's most publicized venture into erotica--in a dorm room is dangerous. There's little you can say in self-defense when caught reading "Nine and a Half Months: Bernadette Noll Can't Get Enough Pregnant Sex" at 3 a.m. But this is the type of embarrassment for which Nerve's contributors and editors have no concern; their Web site (http://www.nerve.com) is chock full of twisted tales of procreation, artsy pictures of naked people and analytical essays on strange sexual topics...
Bradley by contrast, was his ordinary studious self. Staring at his shoes as he began to answer questions, he sounded more like a professor in front of a Core class than a blow-dried politician...