Word: tryin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Just a Squirrel Tryin' to Get a Nut" (Fifteen Minutes, Nov. 5): It frightens me to think that two intelligent and well-educated women would rather accentuate issues of gender inequality than fight them. The writers continually refer to the women of Wellesley as "girls" as opposed to Harvard men, suggesting the subservience of women. These authors are only helping to strengthen the part of our society which hopes to make women subservient...
Aside from being an offensive and unjust characterization of Wellesley students, "Just a Squirrel Tryin' to Get a Nut" is a painful example of the sexism that exists in our society. Young women (consistently referred to as "girls") who have made the intelligent, informed decision to attend an all-female college are portrayed as desperate to catch men (never called "boys"), and willing to trade sexual favors for any sort of recognition. The "girls" depicted clearly have little sense of their self-worth except in relation to men, and feel that wearing revealing clothing and having indiscriminate...
...found "Just a Squirrel Tryin' to Get a Nut" (Fifteen Minutes, Nov. 5) to be in very poor taste. Alicia A. Carrasquillo '00 and Avra van der Zee '02 portray Wellesley women as self-loathing desperate individuals who will engage in casual sexual encounters for reasons as empty as avoiding cab fare home...
...Buffett became one of only six writers to reach the No. 1 spot on both the New York Times' fiction and nonfiction best-seller lists. (The others: Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, William Styron, Irving Wallace and Dr. Seuss.) Buffett, quoting one of his early songs, says he is still "tryin' to figure out how I ever got here...
...stardom hit, Rolling Stone repeated the old tales in a 1979 cover story, and Buffett was detained by the authorities in St. Barts, where he was then living. "Me and my big mouth," he says. "I had never been a dope dealer; I was just hangin' in the bars, tryin' to be cool...