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...Owning and cultivating a lawn became a fabulous new way for the social elite to compete in the conspicuous consumption of leisure. A great deal of money was required to buy the materials, hire a designer and planters, and have either gardeners or animals shave it down to its optimum length. When the upper echelons of colonial society returned from their European travels with news of the latest in fashion, food, and home decor, they brought the lawn with them--it came from Old to New England with all its attendant symbolism...
...passivity toward her situation. Silent consent. In this post-feminist age, the politics of elaborating and emphasizing differences are unfashionable. Most women at Harvard would hesitate to label themselves feminists, a term which connotes bra-burning radicals and militant man-haters. And of course, feminists never wear lipstick or shave their legs...
...passivity toward her situation. Silent consent. In this post-feminist age, the politics of elaborating and emphasizing differences are unfashionable. Most women at Harvard would hesitate to label themselves feminists, a term which connotes bra-burning radicals and militant man-haters. And of course, feminists never wear lipstick or shave their legs...
Reading period is supposed to be like this. You don't have to shave, or go to class (unless you made the wrong decision sometime in September), and you have a lot of work to do. But as everyone is aware, reading period is only a more intense version of the semester, a scramble to get everything done...
...would agree. A bigger hurdle might be convincing Clinton, who is reportedly against any such admission of guilt because he genuinely believes that he did not lie in any of his testimony. That, of course, would be the ultimate irony: that this man, who has been know to closely shave the truth, would not be able to say something that he believed to be a lie -- even to save his own skin...