Word: standing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...allege that the College is anti-Semitic. I simply think that it is too rigidly fixed in its ways--not a revelation to anyone. If Harvard is so concerned about fires, then both menorahs and Christmas trees should be banned from individual rooms. As matters stand, however, Harvard is hypocritical when it encourages us to open our minds to the diversity around us, because it refuses to do the same. Instead, it unevenly limits celebrations of light in this holiday season...
...Moore asked the women present to stand and raise their fists for her piece, "Black Statue of Liberty," in what Bright described as "one of the most powerful images of the evening...
...penthouse of the Holyoke Center, to be designed by noted architect Jose Luis Sert, who also designed the Science Center and Peabody Terrace. Rothko, enamored with dreams of creating a public space with his artwork, was eager to bring this vision to fruition. Ideally, Rothko preferred that the viewer stand a mere 18 inches away from the surface of his paintings, so that his glowing canvases governed even peripheral vision. And still, what would be even more visually encompassing than to have a complete room walled by Rothkos...
Will the real Harvard women's hockey team please stand...
...days earlier, "Victory Tower" had been the sum of our outside existence - the 10-minute thrills of rappelling, rope bridges and cargo netting suffocated almost completely by eight hours of long lines and inaction. (Try "Renaissance Man," filmed here, if you can stand it.) On Wednesday we got to be in the Army - we got to go on a road march. All rigged up with helmets, rucksacks and LCES (a suspenders-and-a-half getup for canteens and ammo), we hit Fort Jackson's well-worn trails and saw South Carolina's scrubby pine-and-sand version of nature...