Word: tent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...than they were when nearly everyone in town read the same paper and watched the same newscasts. "The biggest single change in the last decade," says Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz, "is that all sorts of upstarts and ruffians and charlatans have elbowed their way into the media tent. News has become everything from Hard Copy to Entertainment Tonight to America Online. In some ways that's very healthy. But now all kinds of rumors and innuendo and conspiracies can make their way onto the media radar screen...
Close your eyes and think back to Frosh Week: the mixers, the lines at the Union, the massive tent with a gazillion organizations railing at you to sign their lists. Remember the dizzying confusion? Remember signing up for the strangest clubs centered around activities you never even knew existed? Remember thinking "we-ell, I guess I might be interested in that, I'm not sure, I never tried...," scribbling your name on a sheet of paper and dashing for the exit of the tent...
...makes us blend into a crowd of casual, comfortable clothing." In a metaphor that is almost poetic, Grun-wald explains: With the pocket t-shirts and cotton turtlenecks grouped into small, medium, large and extra large, "the Gap fits everybody. It provides the sartorial equivalent of the Big Tent, welcoming America's diverse multitude of grossly misshapen bodies into the comforting embrace of its loose fitting" sweaters...
...myself. These are the discoveries which Rundenstine, Gish and Pirsig have identified as the hallmark of an education. I now feel that I, too, have contributed to the Radcliffe tradition. Through meetings in the Lyman Common Room, games of tag in the Yard and celebrations under the Radcliffe tent, I have identified and found acceptance for my individuality. I am always myself at Radcliffe...
...been 60 years since a Democratic president was re-elected--proof that it's tough to unite a big tent...