Word: statement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...insist solely that coming out in and of itself should be a political statement is to encourage a destructive reductionism of self. It is a group saying to a closeted individual, "Your thoughts and passions belong to us and our agenda, now, and we will represent them on posters as we interpret them...
With the exception of an off-hand statement that irony is most pronounced among "media-savvy young people" who are well-educated at expensive schools, very little of the book is about Harvard. Rather, Purdy's project is much broader. The jadedly independent ironist, he argues, resists the urge to "identify strongly with any project, relationship, or aspiration" but at the same time hungers for a particular wholeness. And this is wholeness is only available through a renewed commitment to civic and political life...
...much" time on academics: Students who incessantly ask questions in lecture are brown-nosers, pre-meds who study on weekends are anal, gov-jocks who thrive on the Federalist papers are future political wannabe's. Academic earnestness is often meet with scathing criticisms of social climbing. The oft-repeated statement that "Harvard would be so much better if we didn't have classes" is a pithy reflection of our ironic attitude...
...joint statement was released by the University and the union yesterday after the agreement was signed...
Edelman echoed Crouse's statement...