Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these words are being written, Michael Jordan and the mighty Chicago Bulls have a 500 record. Software giant Microsoft is battling antitrust suits brought by the U.S. government. And once-dominant children's entertainer Barney is now the subject of innumerable vicious parodies, with whole Web sites devoted to his gory demise. These three unrelated things delight us in similar ways. In each case, someone or something that was staggeringly successful for a long period of time has undergone a fall from grace...
...play's co-producer, Stephen E.Gordon '98, said Kossinsky was invited to talk with the cast because of the play's subject matter. Angels in America recounts the story of two couples dealing with homosexuality and AIDS...
...Thousand-Year-Old Man, Reiner observes incredulously, "Sir, you really don't look 2000." Undaunted, Brooks retorts, "Well, I take care of myself." Still not satisfied, Reiner demands that Brooks produce a birth certificate of some kind. Brooks answers, "We didn't have that then". Reiner prompts his subject, "So you were primitive." Nodding, Brooks elaborates, "We were primitive; we were atavistic; we were--what is the word I'm searching for--dumb...
...know a little something about everything, or at least a little something about how to approach everything. However, the lack of flexibility in the present program herds too many students (sometimes more than 900) into specific courses resulting in class overcrowding, a prescribed scope of study within a subject area and often the disinterest and disdain of students. If Harvard were to move more toward distribution requirements (allowing, for example, any history class to count for the "historical study" category), then Core classes would be smaller, the breadth of education larger and the students more engaged...
Toto, I don't think we're in Camelot anymore. Where we are is in The Dark Side of Camelot, a warts-and-more-warts portrait of Kennedy by Pulitzer-prizewinning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh. This time Hersh has tackled a Kennedy mystique that for years has been subject to intense demystification. One after another, the books have grown nastier and dug deeper into J.F.K.'s extramarital affairs, his concealed health history, his suspected dealings with mobsters and the ways in which his father's money and connections smoothed his path to the top. All the same, The Dark Side...