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-68 posts tagged "love"
Trevor Lwere | Monday, April 26, 2021
Not so long ago, the basis of marriage had very little to do with love. The calculus for choosing a partner or partners for marriage had to do with other considerations, such as necessary labor power to produce food and other items like prestige, familial ties etc. Indeed, residues of this tradition still hold in
Letter to the Editor | Monday, April 12, 2021
A friend recently suggested that I should write a Letter to the Editor to the Observer. He didn’t say exactly what I should write about, just that I should write something. What can the Catholic Church teach us about the continued COVID-19 pandemic? What are we to think when faced with physical evil on such
Genevieve Coleman | Wednesday, March 24, 2021
As I was writing this column, my mind kept drifting back to one of the most profound and highly contentious debates I have ever participated in through my more than 14 years of Catholic schooling: whether pets go to Heaven. As a 19-year-old who considers herself somewhat educated, I can now comprehend the theological foundations
Emily DeFazio | Wednesday, February 10, 2021
With February marking the start of Black History Month, [email protected] launched a new campaign called #BlackFacts to provide followers with information on a different figure, event or concept relating to Black history each day of the month. [email protected] is a talk show created by doctorate student Emorja Roberson and co-hosted by senior Lynnette Wukie that
Sophia Michetti | Thursday, October 15, 2020
I didn’t realize how much I had missed Chris Harrison until he graced my TV screen last Tuesday night, introducing Clare Crawley as the lead for the sixteenth season of “The Bachelorette.” The Bachelor franchise has been a major component of American pop culture for as long as I can remember, and this season may
Sydni Brooks | Tuesday, October 13, 2020
So you got played. Whether it was by a friend, a family member or a lover, things hit the fan, and the fan obliterated whatever the thing was. You’ve been trying to put the pieces back together to formulate some resemblance of what things were to salvage the relationship you had, but half of the
Mike Donovan | Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Fiona Apple just wants to be loved. She tries to say as much on the first cut of “Fetch the Bolt Cutters:” “I want somebody to want / and I want what I want and I want / You to love me.” And it’s love she’s received, from critics across the board, the most lavish
Jake Winningham | Tuesday, April 7, 2020
“Wondering what you’re doing / what you’re listening to / which corner of the Moon you’re viewing from your bedroom / … I’m thinking of you too.” — Courtney Bartnett “i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) / i am never without it” — E. E. Cummings “You know that
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, March 25, 2020
In these times of fear and uncertainty, when our daily lives are severely disrupted by the COVID-19 outbreak, many people forget what “greatness” truly means. Indeed, doesn’t this pandemic show that, biologically speaking, human beings are as vulnerable to disease and death as other creatures in the animal world? At a time when we do
Gina Twardosz | Monday, March 23, 2020
“The ugly truth of the matter is this,” Rob Brooks, played by Zoe Kravitz, laments at the end of the first episode of Hulu’s “High Fidelity.” “If we suddenly heard that the world was going to end in 24 hours, the people I would call in the first hour would be the obvious: my parents,