Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have been there this past Monday night when former New York Governor Mario Cuomo came to speak at the Kennedy School of Government. But the lucky 1500 or so Harvard affiliates and Boston residents who came to hear had the rare privilege of seeing Mario Cuomo cry--twice...
...lies beyond our grasp. It simply means that we should be willing NOT to be heroes, to acknowledge that our most exalted role might lie, instead, in softening the ground so that future heroes will have a place to grow. When they hear that Cuomo came to Harvard to speak about "the liberal agenda," too many people probably assumed that they had heard it all before, and that if it was all old news, who needed it? Those people, no matter what their political opinions might be, come from the same part of the body politic: the jaded part...
...failed experiment that Lamont is. Recently renovated, it tries not to be modern and mimics older styles with art deco study lamps and bits of marble here and there. But it's phony: the energy-saving bulbs still give off that wholly-unnatural purplish light and the turnstiles--they speak for themselves. Even without those kinds of mistakes, there's no accounting for dust or all the other details that reassure a person that generations have come before. They have deposited wisdom--which can now be absorbed--and they have departed. It makes a fellow all stoic...
Second, the Foundation's diversity-speak seems designed to protect the University from having to address difficult issues. The whole show kicks off with Dr. S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation, describing how the show represents the "full spectrum" of Harvard students...
Diversity-speak is seductive, but its "happy multiculturalism" often anaesthetizes the more dangerous implications of a plural society and overlooks the sly maneuvers of a University administration that is more concerned with appearances than with addressing substantial minority (and non-minority) student concerns. At the risk of offending some of the very people whose interests we hope to support, we'd like to offer a new interpretation of Cultural Rhythms...