Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...white walls. The place is small, but does not achieve maximum coziness because of the hospital-like sterility. Even the bathroom contributes to this atmosphere by selling exorbitantly priced $1.00 condoms. Ironically, the perceived sterility only goes so far. The dining experience is actually rather unclean by our ethnocentric Western standards; there are neither napkins nor silverware for the patrons, and with two of our guests affected with mysterious sniffles, your reviewers were somewhat uneasy about picking at a communal platter with pieces of injera--spongy, sour, pancake-like bread...
Central Square is one section of Cambridge which, despite its proximity to the Yard, is rarely frequented by Harvard students. The neighborhood is somewhat dangerous, especially at night. Drugs are peddled up and down Western Avenue, and the wail of police sirens is commonplace. But Central Square isn't nearly as dangerous as many other Boston-area neighborhoods. There's lots to see and many interesting people to talk to--particularly if you have a decent conversation piece...
...doctor who heads the clinic is Steele Belok, a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School. Belok says he became interested in meditation when he was a fellow in nephrology and realized that Western medicine neglected the emotional needs of his patients...
Belok believes Western medicine and Vedic medicine are not mutually exclusive, but work best "when they're shaking hands...
Still, it is ironic that the BGLSA has taken such strong public exception to the idea that homosexuality "undermines civilization." After all, if Western culture has been institutionally homophobic for thousands of years, what is wrong with undermining it? If the heterosexual, patriarchal family is so deeply entrenched in Western social and political institutions, then homosexual activity clearly must unravel the fabric of such a society and "undermine civilization." The "queer" polemicists at least have the advantage of facing squarely the radical implications of their social and political program; the BGLSA's attempt to hide behind a screen of stolid...