Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spirit in opposition, rather than in accommodation, that grips me because the romance, the interest, the challenge of intellectual life is to be found in dissent against the status quo at a time when the struggle on the behalf of under-represented and disadvantaged groups seems so unfairly weighted against them." --Edward Said...
...easier to identify the measures that are used to foster respect for authority and the status quo than to determine how to encourage resistance to such pressures. However, I believe that expecting a Harvard education to inculcate a spirit of nonconformity is futile. Resistance is better promoted on an individual level, through exposure to ideas that usually fall outside of the traditional Harvard curriculum. Intellectual independence can be developed by studying authors such as Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Edward Said or Frantz Fanon, who present a strikingly nontraditional perspective on America. Resistance can also be cultivated by reading personal narratives...
Harsh? Yes. Descriptive? I'd have thought so. Accurate? Yes, I think, though obviously in spirit rather than in letter. Criticism welcomed by those involved with the hockey program? Not in the slightest...
Most students believe house spirit has diminished over the last four years...
...hundreds of activists killed eight years ago on June 4 in Beijing?s Tiananmen Square protests, reads: ?The old cannot kill the young forever.? City Hall had rejected an application from Democratic leaders to display the statue, saying it was contrary to what the government calls the celebratory spirit of China's impending takeover. Incoming leader C.H. Tung also criticized the planned protest, asking people to drop ?the baggage of June 4? and try to achieve a smooth transition to Chinese rule. While China has stayed out of the controversy so far, Tung is reluctant to provoke Beijing. Which means...