Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...academic specialization and burgeoning subfields, it is unlikely that our concentrations will commit to substantial reductions in course requirements. Nor is it likely that the faculty will abandon the principle that students should commit a significant number of courses to exploring "ways of thinking" outside their concentrations. New discoveries about the natural and physical world, new art forms, and new social developments will call for new disciplines...
...luck. "Say what we will about Mir's jalopy days, next spring will be 14 years for a station intended to last only five," says Kluger. "Most of those years were smooth and uneventful." Now Mir's current crew will be its last. The three cosmonauts will abandon ship in August after installing a new computer allowing ground controllers to command the station remotely. From that point Mir's orbit, currently about 240 miles above Earth, will begin to tighten. When it reaches 125 miles, the Russians will pick an ocean -- unlike Skylab, which NASA dangerously allowed to deorbit itself...
...other "Star Wars" films, primarily for kids. What has left unsaid is that children do not have to be limited by age: the movie is for the childlike joy and wonder left in all of us, if only we look for it within ourselves. It is so easy to abandon these things as the detritus of a journey to "maturity"; however, being older and "wiser" does not mean that we're any closer to the truth. When we are children, we often see the world in black and white, good and bad, right and wrong. Though human existence is filled...
Loyalty. Honor. Courage. Fortitude. Ideals that, sadly, aren't revered or seen much in our world anymore. The comic book warriors of the "Star Wars" films indulge in these virtues with abandon upon stages breathtaking in their special effects. The Jedi, strong in the "Force," battle the Dark Side, i.e., the evil very present in the world, in all worlds, and across galaxies and time. The success of the execution of this is unparalleled--attracting theatergoers of all ages and points of view, from Harvard undergraduates to their sometimes Luddite parents...
...History departments, particularly Americanists; the mass exodus of junior faculty from the English department; the seeming failure, if not iniquity, of the tenure system in the cases of government professors Bonnie Honig and Peter Berkowitz, and a huge missed opportunity in a periodic review of the Core to fully abandon the tired program in favor of distribution requirements. There has been no real progress on ethnic studies, and little to nothing has changed in such vital areas as section size, teaching fellow quality and academic advising. Verdict: Even to worse...