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...spending its hard-won Campaign loot on building up existing programs and facilities. The specific goals of the Campaign are basically three-fold: raising money for student aid, faculty salaries, and renovating the dorms and other buildings. New buildings, facilities, and programs--which often pack unforseen costs--are notably absent from the drive's shopping lists. The money, therefore, is not being wasted on mindless expansion, but rather strengthening the University's scholarship on all levels, on making it a habitable place and on helping make sure that students of all financial backgrounds are able to attend Harvard. Other schools...
...would allow the filming of a place where their guns and bombs are produced plainly indicates the political orientation of the filmmakers. But this in no way detracts from the value of these inside glimpses of the revolutionary movement, which include footage of a baby-faced 13-year-old absent-mindedly ticking off the names of weapons he knows...
...midnight, December 31, 1899." "Although presented as a true chronicle the events tend towards the fantastic from the initial sequence in which Deride disappears in a black silk balloon. Yet such events are treated as commonplace (if confusing) as is sexual mutability. Neither ghost nor devil is long absent from the Zinn hearth...
...much easier for an individual to be entertained in the summer without the aid of baseball, than in the winter with football absent. Look at it this way: you probably went swimming several times this summer, but when was the last time you went sledding...
...music represents less of a conscious break with the past than either Reich's or Glass's; instead of reducing his music to the bare bones, Adams draws inspiration from composers like Beethoven, Mahler, Sibelius and Stravinsky. His works have a lushness and emotional depth largely absent in the ascetic though fundamentally cheerful sounds of Reich or the giddy, explosive rhythms of Glass. The least "minimal" of the three, Adams has forged a big, strong, personal style, expressed in complex forms that employ a more extensive use of dissonance than other minimalists...