Word: subjection
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...down alone last Sunday at Annenberg, I spotted the behemoth that is the Sunday Boston Globe lying nearby. I wasn’t going to turn down any opportunity to seem busy in the eyes of judgmental passing freshmen, and I found a piece on a common, yet intriguing, subject of the Globe: trashing Harvard. In the opening paragraph of Christopher Shea’s article “Secret Societies: Can the Ivy League’s Big Three live down their history of discrimination?” Shea relates an anecdote about bigoted Harvard admissions policies from Berkeley...
...spotlights nor the murk of their secret shames. As his surname implies, Nick is forever a “Guest”: a creature of thresholds, of spare bedrooms just slightly under-furnished, of borrowed clothes and borrowed friends, always made much of but never quite belonging. Like the subject of a Renaissance portrait whose eyes or hands are deliberately enlarged to appear more lifelike, Nick has the uncanny air of being both more and less human than the rest of us. The novel’s three-part division, following the narrator in 1983, 1986, and 1987, shows...
...fact I know about my Jewish grandpa: he died the day before I went to Auschwitz. I got the news at an internet café in Krakow, a few hours after taking a group tour of the former concentration camp. My mom’s e-mail subject line was “Sad News.” After the initial surprise, I was a little upset that my family had only sent an e-mail. Of course, I didn’t expect my mom to call, but what about my dad or my sister? So I searched...
From: Isis Secretary Molly Faulkner-Bond ’06 Subject: [Isis] 10/2 Meeting Recap Date...
Given that they know that they are playing a precarious popularity game—one that is undeniably based on social, economic, or otherwise arbitrary standards—why do hundreds of students subject themselves to such capricious, often humiliating, selection processes...