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...Harvard-Radcliffe Society of Arab Students) could become a sassy-sounding SASH (Society of Arab Students at Harvard). And sadly, musical organizations seem to be particularly vulnerable to less flattering connotations in this new Radcliffe-less world. The elegantly constructed HARMONY acronym (Harvard and Radcliffe Musical Outreach to Neighborhood Youth) will be rechristened to a less charitable Harvard MONY. And alas! Our prestigious philharmonic, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HO), will be condensed...
...person who can speak for the race. Never mind that one person cannot possibly speak for an entire race of people (the last time I checked, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. wasn't knocking on my door asking for guidance on what to tell the white world about black youth). Never mind that there is no corresponding term for whites. Apparently Boston magazine still thinks that black people are one huge homogeneous mass that can be spoken for by one voice...
...youth, as indeed during his infamous "White House walks," which usually culminated in a nude swim across the Potomac, Theodore Roosevelt's cross-country motto was "Over, Under or Through--But Never Around." That overmastering directness and focus upon his objective, be it geological or political or personal, was the force that Adams identified. But T.R., unlike so many other active (as opposed to reactive) Presidents, also had a highly sophisticated, tactical mind. William Allen White said that Roosevelt "thought with his hips"--an apercu that might better be applied to Ronald Reagan, whose intelligence was intuitive, and even...
...while in this way Lenin may be the central actor who begins the 20th century, he is the least knowable of characters. As a boy growing up in Simbirsk, Lenin distinguished himself in Latin and Greek. The signal event of his youth--the event that radicalized him--came in 1887, when his eldest brother Alexander, a student at the University of St. Petersburg, was hanged for conspiring to help assassinate Czar Alexander III. As a lawyer, Lenin became increasingly involved in radical politics, and after completing a three-year term of Siberian exile, he began his rise as the leading...
Forever scarred by the knowledge that, as a 16-year-old youth, he'd been making love to his wife Kasturba at the moment of his father's death, Gandhi later forswore sexual relations but went on into his old age with what he called his "brahmacharya experiments," during which naked young women would be asked to lie with him all night so that he could prove that he had mastered his physical urges. (He believed that total control over his "vital fluids" would enhance his spiritual powers...