Word: slants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...though we're beginning the job of covering Harvard sports anew, but it's fair to say that our command unit of three may present a little different slant on things, without the likes of John Trainer's elegant cynicism to goad us on. We hope to present more games in a greater variety of Harvard sports to you, and maybe we'll even slice in a bit of the sporting "Real World" from time to time a la the news department. Right now, we're just going to take it day by day, game by game...
...present the moments of the 1994 Harvard sports scene for you, the readers, not to turn the spotlight around on myself, the columnist-writer-golfer-fan. I may contribute a first-hand golf team report during the year, but only in search of a new slant on sports journalism. And hopefully, when all is said and done after reading period of January 1995, y'all will be able to say you enjoyed our ride as much as I will have...
...thinking behind exclusion has a distinct cold war slant, reflecting the 40-year period during which U.S. geostrategy ignored events and concerns outside the life-and-death struggle between the West and Moscow. In the past it was Russia's strength that drove U.S. policy; today it is Boris Yeltsin's weakness. The primary reason offered by U.S. officials for keeping the East Europeans out of NATO is the fear of provoking Russia's nationalists at Yeltsin's expense. Yeltsin endorsed NATO expansion last August, but Russia's military, to which he is clearly beholden, forced a retreat...
This argument misses the point entirely. There is no such thing as a good stereotype; if someone forms a preconceived notion of your abilities and manner from the tone of your skin or the slant of your eyes, you are dehumanized. You become an object, mass produced with certain standard characteristics...
...wanted beige or off- white, he says, because "neutral-colored walls go with any colors in the paintings." But the curators insisted on stronger tones. The dispute grew so acrimonious that one curator is reported by several observers to have referred repeatedly to Pei, behind his back, as "that slant-eyed little Chinaman...