Word: topicalism
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...This is a single issue candidacy. I’m not trying to confuse my message. I’m going to stay on topic and my topic is Lobster Night,” said Paul B. Davis ’07 of Kirkland House. Davis formed the facebook.com group “Harvard Coalition for the Return of Lobster Night” which boasts a membership of 189 students. He plans to launch a poster campaign soon...
...initial brilliance and originality. Most of the 200 works in the show, which was organized by the British Dali expert Dawn Ades and Michael R. Taylor, the Philadelphia museum's curator of modern art, are from the agreed upon golden age before 1940, when Dali's great topic was sex and how much it frightened him. Whatever was limp, runny and detumescent--plus anything disgusting--found its way into his canvases. He generally placed all of that in a space adapted from Giorgio De Chirico's plunging distortions of classical perspective, which he merged with his erotically charged memories...
That spring, Marla D. Eby ‘73, then the chairman of the Radcliffe Freshman Council, met with other Harvard and Radcliffe students and administrators, and the overbearing topic was the unhealthy nature of single-sex housing. It was a “heated” discussion—she, like other men and women, argued that they should live together to foster natural, unforced relationships...
Former teammate and current tri-captain Nicole Corriero said the question of whether Ruggiero could play with the men has been always topic of discussion...
...clear, I admit to knowing little about the topic on which Larry was commenting, and I know that, as a man, my opinion will always have to be a working hypothesis informed by listening. My initial reaction was that he was wrong. But in many fundamental ways, before the Larry brouhaha I was probably a lot like most people on campus and in the progressive community, some general leanings based on an observation here or an article there but without a fully developed understanding of this particular issue...