Word: spokenness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Soft-spoken and pacific, Lee is as well known in Hollywood for his modesty as he is for his protean talent. It's hard to square volcanic passions, after all, with a man who once told an interviewer that one of his favorite restaurants was KFC. Lee's movies, too, often revolve around the repression of overwhelming emotion. In his wuxia epic, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, swords and fists became stand-ins for everything the martial characters couldn't say. Brokeback Mountain's cowboys suffered for love they could not acknowledge. Even Lee's Hulk was an exploration of suppressed...
...civic illiteracy of Harvard students is an embarrassment to us all. The Jack Miller Center for the Teaching of America’s Founding Principles has spoken, and we would be fools not to listen. Harvard’s first duty is to its country, and its mission is clear; if we’re not educating American citizens, then we’ve lost our raison d’être. (That’s French.) The threat to Harvard’s integrity posted by the influx of internationals must be crushed immediately...
Answering her red phone in Cabot House late at night, Vanessa Vargas ’09 was greeted by a soft-spoken male voice. Though Vargas didn’t recognize the man who called her, she stayed on the line for a few minutes because the stranger “sounded like he was trying to reach out for help.” “He kept repeating that he just had a really bad day,” Vargas said of the incident which occurred last week. “And he kept saying that he wished...
...With 25 percent of South Africa’s national population infected and 600 deaths each day, South Africa’s AIDS epidemic had already decimated communities. Yet because the disease remained a death sentence primarily for South Africa’s poor, its fearful name was rarely spoken. And for those brave enough to break the silence that exacerbated misunderstanding and perpetuated inaction, the price could be dear. In late 1998, a woman named Gugu Dlamini publicly announced that she was HIV-positive on radio and television stations; soon after, she was stoned to death...
...likely fatal to his candidacy. In recent years, at least three professors—Oxford’s Tom Paulin, DePaul’s Norman Finkelstein, and Rutgers’ Robert Trivers—have been invited to speak at Harvard and then disinvited after complaints that they had spoken critically of Israel or disagreed sharply with Harvard Law School Professor Alan M. Dershowitz regarding Israel’s military conduct...