Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first they joke about their predicament (but actual tears will be shed before many hours have passed)--"I'd feel pretty bad if I didn't see so many of my friends here." Kind soft-spoken Ivy men take them aside and counsel them. Join Prospect, they gently urge (each adjusting his identical green and yellow striped tie). Join the poverty-stricken cooperative where you'll take turns waiting on your own tables and mopping the floor and be looked down upon for three years by the members of the real clubs. Join the wonk club, join the club...
...left wall and the hardhats worn by the stagehands, they suggest that the evening's theme is to be construction. But that's the last we hear of it. It's never explained or worked through, aside from the vague relationship between the secret society of Freemasons and the actual work of masonry, and the even vaguer relationship between Masonic ritual and parts of The Magic Flute--which Prum does not underscore, but parodies, giving his priests of Isis red-plastic horns to blow and coffee-can censers. Later, Prum projects photos of Widener to illustrate Prince Tamino's approach...
...sharp debate that has gone on in Fast I ansing centers not on the actual numbers, but on the implications of the actions. Tenure is an unwritten agreement between the university and a faculty member which promises a professor job security. A district court recently rejected a law suit, initiated by a professor to block the impending layoffs, ruling that the board of trustees could take such drastic action if it felt it necessary to deal with financial problems...
...threaten someone, you rely on his foresight cooperating with his memory. Bruno Bettelheim in The Informed Heart, a study of the concentration camps, described the power that the SS used on prisoners: "Childlike feelings of helplessness were created much more effectively by the constant threat of beatings than by actual torture. During a real beating one could, for example, take pride in suffering manfully, in not giving the foreman or the guard the satisfaction of groveling before him. No such emotional protection was possible against the mere threat." So, too, with the American slaves who often acquiesced in their...
SCIENCE SITS balanced somewhere between the possible and the actual. Emanating from a private world of thought, science is rarely the straightforward and successful march to accomplishment that so many imagine. Hesitation, compromise, public courage and private honesty are all needed to bridge the gap from the implicit to the explicit. And it takes time. Time to become aware of one's own ideas. times to test those ideas. and time to doubt those ideas. And in a world of shrinking grants and budgetary stripmining. time is running out faster than the money that pays...