Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...infuriating to have read in The Crimson ("Lowell Masters Stress House Ban on Assassin", March 4) that even the limited social offerings of the Houses are now under attack by administrators. For House Masters like Diana L. Eck to threaten Expulsion from the House community as a response to playing the game of "Assassin"--enjoyed by students across the country as harmless, cerebral fun--is preposterous and unjustifiable. Particularly amusing are the objections to the game's "violent" overtones, sentiments I suppose would resonate more soundly were they to come from an administration not currently maintaining relations with two convicted...
Charlotte takes a job as housekeeper to a moody old French artist, invents an absent husband for protection, tumbles into confused, despairing sex with a local resistance operative, and tries to stay clear of the murky vectors of mistrust and betrayal among the factions that threaten the tangled Resistance apparatus. Manages to keep her sandy hair dyed black. Chokes back hopelessness when two Jewish children she has been helping to protect are taken by Nazis...
...male within the institution, Ididn't threaten the stated goals of theinstitution as being primarily an enclave forwomen's scholars," he says...
...Harvard or the house system itself was in place. Prior restrictions on guests, as well as recent, stricter policies, do not reflect final club elitism, as has been suggested in The Crimson, but instead a conscious effort to preserve the clubs in an era when issues of legal liability threaten to close them down...
...Harvard or the house system itself was in place. Prior restrictions on guests, as well as recent, stricter policies, do not reflect final club elitism, as has been suggested in The Crimson, but instead a conscious effort to preserve the clubs in an era when issues of legal liability threaten to close them down...