Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Comparisons of the fate of the family to Greek tragedy are commonplace, though the analogy comes just as close to the Romans. The Gracchi, two highborn brothers in the second century B.C. who scorned their fellow aristocrats and were elected tribunes to effect social good, were both assassinated. But when one thinks of the Kennedys, the Greeks come to mind--the Agamemnon family especially--because one feels that their disasters can only be the result of some terrible curse. It's all nonsense and superstition, of course. But this is what happens when "frail thoughts dally with false surmise" about...
When Murdoch seems not to be singing about himself, he follows many British bands in offering character sketches and social critique. Much of Tigermilk offers portraits of other young men and women who are most likely Generation Xers, from a young dreamer, Mary Jo, to a pair of lesbian lovers, Lisa and Chelsea on "She's Losing It." As elsewhere, these figures are reading books, skating pirouettes and riding buses as hobbies...
Lecturer on Social Psychology Henry Wechsler based his conclusions on about 15,000 undergraduates' responses to a survey, which asked the students about their drinking habits and frequency of reckless behavior caused by drunkenness...
...response also gave me a unique burden to bear this summer. Off to DC and miles away from The Crimson's fortress where students forsake Friday night gatherings to take surveys and write articles about the inept social scene, my excuse no longer applied. I was heading to a land where five o'clock meant the start of happy hour, not the deadline for a problem set, to a land where well built frat boys had to wear suits and ties, to a land where the interns roamed free (and you know what they say about interns...
This year's core program offers 101 courses in foreign cultures, historical studies, literature and arts, moral reasoning, science core areas and social analysis, compared to 92 courses in the areas last year...