Word: tokenism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Night are all Lamb’s own, left over from an art class he teaches each summer in Vermont. In fact, the materials he uses give clues to his pre-Harvard life: one type of paper he uses for lamps is a thick Japanese rice paper, a token of the months he spent at an Japanese monastery; the tea that he offers his Art Night visitors is a reminder of his five years in England, where he attended Summerhill school, one of the most well-known non-traditional boarding schools in the world. But other aspects of Lamb?...
...love to see that Yale team have some success,” said Walsh, who described finding the best way to commemorate Yale’s loss as “difficult.” The Crimson sent Yale an autographed bat earlier this season as a token of its sympathy...
...organization, from rank-in-file to top-tier leadership. While HRCF does not discriminate when recruiting new members—its leaders recently inserted a new clause into the constitution that emphasizes this point—stressing that membership is open is little more than a token gesture. Full participation in a club must include the opportunity to take on roles of responsibility and control. It is absurd to imagine approval for a club that allows open membership but restricts leadership to members of a certain race or gender. Similarly, no group should require dogmatic professions of faith for participation...
...conspicuous blank space at center remains, a pale token of the scandal that revisited Sargent half a lifetime after “Madame...
...story goes, and, for most, finding a special lady is just impossible. If you find yourself stuck in the drink-up-and-hook-up lane, college can be a romantic wasteland. The drunk hook-up, after all, is the poster child of poseur romance. Besides all the obvious token emptiness, there’s the worst poseur romance move of them all: that uncomfortable “post-hook-up” thing, where some people just don’t know when’s when. This is only exacerbated by the fact that you’re sleeping...