Word: shamed
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...Vagina. There I've said it. I am saying it to celebrate my womanhood because what you don't say becomes a secret which shame, guilt and embarrassment surround." So opens Eve Ensler's dynamic and candid play The Vagina Monologues, now showing at the Agassiz Theater. In its original form, Ensler's singular work was made to lead the audience towards a celebration of the "sustenance, humor and creativity" that encompass the woman's discovery of self. Indeed, her avowed purpose in writing the piece was to communicate the abuse of the vagina to the general public...
...absence and accuses him of running off for a fling with another woman. When he tries to tell her the truth and shows her his scars as proof, he only confirms her suspicions. But who could be expected to believe his story or grasp his feelings of violation and shame? When he happens to meet a police officer who investigates unsolved crimes, he recounts his experience as if it had happened to a friend of his: "Olsen was silent for a moment, and then he laughed and said, 'That's terrible...
...through violence does Jean transcend Miss Julie. Only by degrading her into little more than a whore (through graphic directorial choices leading to a violent, on-stage rape scene that must have Strindberg rolling in his grave) does he forcibly climb above her. And, similarly, only through this unbearable shame does Miss Julie ironically fulfill her wish to travel down from her precarious perch in the pure and untouchable upper crust. Only Kristine truly understands the hypocrisy inherent in Julie and Jean's desires, yet she can do and say nothing. Nitter deftly underplays Kristine, suggesting that beneath Kristine...
...guys actually laugh. In fact, I begin to chuckle, not at the comment, but at a marvelous realization: I don't have to be politically correct--this is professional wrestling! It'sokay to be an asshole. No, it's expected to be an asshole! _Slaughter those disrespectful foreigners! Shame on them for being from Japan!_ Of course, I don't say any of this out loud; Christina looks appalled enough. I can tell she finds these fans quite uncouth...
...alone will not foster the kind of student-Faculty discourse Harvard is often criticized for lacking. While the student body complains about distance from Faculty, professors often sit idle during office hours, proving that faculty availability is not always the same as student-Faculty interaction. It would be a shame for this new policy, like office hours, to remain largely unused...