Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recently sent a letter to each candidate for the Board asking, "What would you like to accomplish as an Overseer of Harvard College?" The AHA Nominating Committee responded by sending the candidates letters discouraging them from giving policy statements...
...According to a memorandum circulated among the CPE members, the papers will reflect an emphasis on economic incentives and the "variety of ways in which the Federal government can accomplish its objectives other than through direct administration, unregulated subsidies, or grants...
...novel, Robbe-Grillet has pointed out "the destitution of the old myths of depth," the notion that the artist's task should be to suggest the "hidden realities," the "hidden unities," etc, between ordinary men and objects. The humanist portrays Man's continual striving to extend himself everywhere, to accomplish everything, and to achieve impossible spiritual communions. Failing (naturally) in these Man suffers, and finally exalts in the tragic beauty of his suffering, the "sublime necessity" of his alienation. Robbe-Grillet attacks tragedy-the bourgeois artist's ultimate weapon-as a reinforcement, religious in nature, of intolerable existing conditions...
...which this philosophy was portrayed gives an extremely distorted, one-sided view of the class as a whole. Freshmen may not be the naive optimists that freshmen at Harvard used to be, but there are a large number of freshmen who are working quietly and diligently to accomplish what little they can now while carefully preparing themselves for the meaningful role that they hope to play in changing this society in the future. Only when these people are taken into account can you have anything resembling a meaningful picture of the Class...
...does well there, he'll go to the Nationals. That is uppermost in his mind, but still he insists that all he wants to accomplish is to help Harvard place above the other Ivy League teams in the tournament...