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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...itself. The criteria for diversity mentioned were standard: academic interests, cultural orientation, geography, and personal philosophies. But even on the basis of these qualities, which by now are almost universally accepted, Harvard has slackened, and more and more Harvard undergraduates are likely to come from a similar and upper-middle class socio-economic background...
...House seminars have served to provide similar opportunities to students, although they are offered on a more limited basis than upper-level Gen Ed courses, they indicate strategies that the Redbook committee might consider. In next year's seminar on the "Problems of Bilingual People in an Urban Environment," the student's research will be based on his work as a volunteer in agencies such as schools and hospitals in a Boston bilingual community. The combination of fieldwork with rigorous academic inquiry offers a fruitful organizing principle for the Gen Ed program. It might infuse liberal education at Harvard with...
...upper Egypt, her exhausting itinerary included treks to the distant temples of Luxor, Karnak and Abu Simbel, with the Aswan dam thrown in. Through it all, she asked enthusiastic questions, and the ordeal was considerably mitigated by the warmth of the Sadats. Said the Egyptian President: "You are a part of Henry's family here...
Actually, the whole of Mishima's career may have been a rehearsal for that death. Born to an upper-middle-class Tokyo family, he had a fairly sinister childhood. He was raised as a little girl by his grandmother, who kept him much of the time in her gloomy sickroom. The fetid memories of such an upbringing formed much of the basis of his 1958 novel, Confessions of a Mask. "Something within me responded to the darkened room and the sickbed," he wrote elsewhere. He was fascinated, too, by death, which for him possessed an erotic attraction. His first...
...therapy. By working hard at her job. By just waiting out the ordeal. (She has not remarried.) How would she do it differently if she had to do it again? She would talk about death more openly to her husband, to her children. She would not try to stiff-upper-lip it through. And she would have couples make financial preparations-by seeing to things like wills, savings and death benefits, which are often neglected until too late. "Money," she writes savagely, "is power. Strength. Life. It is sexual. I care more about money than I do about sex right...