Word: touched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...competitive institution such as Harvard it is easy to get so caught up in your own life that you lose touch of what is going on in the lives of the people around you. Academics, athletics and extra-curricular activities at times become over-prioritized...
...easy to care only about what directly affects your life. And I say this from experience. However, what I am realizing more and more is that while these are all noble pursuits, there is so much more. Committing myself to public service has helped me to keep in touch with matters beyond Harvard Yard. And I believe that my work with CHANCE has given me much more insight than I could have ever received in any class at Harvard...
...Woodland Hastings, master of Pforzheimer House through 1995, characterized the Pforzheimers as "marvelous, warm, generous, modest and unassuming." He said the family kept in touch constantly in the months following the name change...
...tired of the left-wing circle jerk?" he demanded, insisting on the importance of intellectual liberals consolidating with working-class groups. "The working class knows that you feel superior to them," he admonished, and prescribed a diet of mainstream movies, TV, and country music to get in touch with the concerns of the average American. His tour took him primarily to working-class areas, with the exceptions of the University of Michigan's Ann Arbor and Berkeley, California, and, of course, Cambridge. Acknowledging that he was "preaching to the choir," Moore nevertheless stressed, "Let's stop meeting with ourselves...
...segment, Civil War veterans re-enacted "great battles" of the past. In another, Janeane Garofolo invaded the private beaches of Greenwich, Connecticut, rousing the ire of its inbred residents; one of them denied being prejudiced against Garofolo's black friends, remarking that Greenwich people were very much in touch with minorities--they employed them in their homes. Although his audience needed no converting, Moore's acute observations and outrageous humor were rewarded by an enthusiastic standing ovation at the end of his speech...