Word: thingness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...pipe, subtitled "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" (This is not a pipe). Language was a lifelong fixation for the artist. He felt that because it was used to represent the truth, it was a betrayal: his picture of a pipe was only a simulacrum of the real thing...
...recently saw somewhat of a panic with swine flu. Are viruses the thing that's going to wipe this planet clean, as opposed to nuclear bombs? It certainly is the one threat that seems to allow us to be irrational about things. A nuclear attack requires a device, it can be intercepted, it can only affect a certain area. There is a logic to the way it spreads. But a virus grows exponentially. Every time it expands, there's a casualty. It's closer to a panic - closer, therefore, to a very primal fear...
...Twenty-five years later, Askew still marvels at what unlikely champions they were. “We were the upstarts from Harvard who really didn’t belong there,” Askew said. “It’s almost as if we stumbled into this thing. We didn’t quite realize how good we were until the final whistle blew and we were national champions.” —Staff writer Lingbo Li can be reached at lingboli@fas.harvard.edu—Staff writer Marianna N. Tishchenko can be reached at mtishch@fas.harvard.edu...
...publicly accused of sexual misconduct in a six year period.“They were a huge deal,” Ann Pellegrini ’86, Radcliffe Union of Students President in 1985, said of the cases. But she added that “one positive thing that came out of them was conversation. People were talking about sexual harassment.”The Dominguez incident was closely followed by a University-wide survey of student, faculty, and staff experiences with sexual harassment, that was spearheaded by Verba, who was then the dean of undergraduate education and an academic...
Good: Telling your parents in person rather than relying on Facebook to do the work for you. C'mon, there are still some things you have to do the old-fashioned way. Not so good: Duh ... Letting your parents figure it out while they try out this newfangled Facebook thing...