Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...argument for the center is straightforward: a multicultural student center would enhance interaction between Harvard's ethnic organizations while facilitating the dissemination of cultural awareness to the Harvard community at large. As a letter signed by more than fifteen leaders of cultural organizations and over 400 Harvard affiliates in late Oct. 1995, summed up: the creation of a multicultural student center would serve to "reaffirm Harvard's commitment to a diverse and inclusive community...
Those who have gone through the process say that the only good tactic is to be straightforward in approaching people...
...London is how much respect they are accorded. Brash young directors like Stephen Daldry and Sam Mendes are busy deconstructing British oldies like An Inspector Calls or finding quirky new takes on Shakespeare. But the directors of these American classics have treated them for the most part with straightforward fidelity. The second thing one notices is how well the British actors handle the American idiom. Aside from an occasional slip--listen for those long e's in been--the American accents are convincing, or at least unobtrusive...
...matter included a couple of sexual- harassment cases involving a six-year-old boy in Lexington, North Carolina, and a seven-year-old boy in New York City. Both were accused of harassing girls in their grade by touching and/or kissing them. The seven-year-old kisser's straightforward defense--"because I like her"--was deemed porous...
Some of the narratives embedded in the triptychs are more straightforward than others. Beginning, 1946-49, is perhaps the most explicit of them all, a summing-up of childhood memory. The small boy in the nursery, dressed in a hussar's uniform and riding furiously on a rocking horse with drawn sword, is plainly Beckmann himself; a Puss-in-Boots hangs upside down from the ceiling; a languid carrot-haired odalisque on the sofa in the foreground blows iridescent soap bubbles of reverie and future desire; and a schoolmasterly figure holds up his hand in a gesture of censoriousness...