Word: starks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their place is a stark black and white picture of milk cartons, newspapers, glass and tin cans with one ominious, money-conscious word--"recycle"--scrawled across the cover...
...asking for suicide or actually doing it to them without their permission because they have become too burdensome or costly." The haunting precedent, of course, is the Nazi Holocaust, during which the chronically ill, then the socially unacceptable, and finally all non-Germans were viewed as expendable. In his stark essay "The Humane / Holocaust," Christian author Malcolm Muggeridge notes that "it took no more than three decades to transform a war crime into an act of compassion...
Babies are born with malformed hearts, children suffer from bronchial asthma, and adults struggle with lead poisoning. Suau's stark photographs are but one glimpse of the anguished land left behind by Nicolae Ceausescu, who put Copsa Mica (pop. 6,000) into industrial overdrive. Situated 150 miles northwest of Bucharest, the town is in the county of Sibiu, which was once governed by the late dictator's son Nicu. Likely to go on trial within the next few months, Nicu could receive life imprisonment if convicted. A more appropriate punishment might be to sentence him to spend the rest...
Thus, one piece does nothing but portray a stark, future utopia at Harvard in which a perverse sexual morality reigns and heterosexuals are executed for their failure to "experiment with an alternative lifestyle." The author doesn't recognize the irony that the improbable, intolerant nightmare she envisages--one for which no liberal would ever wish--is merely a mirror image of the more conventional sexual morality that she evidently sincerely wishes to impose on everyone...
This case stands in stark contrast to a similar occurrence last year when a student was caught for the same crime. The Crimson did not meddle in the affair; it merely reported after the fact that an unnamed student was put on disciplinary probation for his illicit activity. Is there a new policy at The Crimson this year that it now considers itself a moral tribunal which will decide when individuals have been adequately punished...