Word: actually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three weeks would be reading period proper. Students would have to make up their minds about courses earlier than in the past, perhaps after the first week of reading period and would do so on the basis of their observation of the lecturer, the reading lists, the synopses, an actual stab at the reading and perhaps even the Confi Guide! Students wishing to drop courses later in the year would be permitted to take make-up exams...
Sontag explores the way in which photography affects one's experience of the world, of other people, of oneself. By certifying and documenting photographs become more important than the actual experience, enduring after the experience itself has passed. The world becomes something to be photographed, something to "shoot," something to put down on paper and look at later. Photographs are the standard by which the world is judged. Sontag describes the disappointment of tourists who find the sights on their vacations less exciting than photographs had led them to expect...
...fact that the proximity is only apparent. The photographic vision depicts a reality very different from life's reality. Time is frozen in a photograph; continuous in life. The experience of photography involves only one sense; the experience of life involves all. Such differences between photographic reality and actual reality lead Sontag to conclude that "surrealism is at the heart of the photographic enterprise"--not in the sense of the glib, self-conscious surrealism of one branch of photography, but in the very activity of presenting a reality of a very different order from conventional reality, a reality apprehended through...
Having seen and covered more than my share of Harvard events, I have many memories, but most of them have nothing to do with the actual athletic competition. Following, then are a few of the memories which come quickly to mind, and which probably reveal my feelings about sports far more eloquently than I could do myself...
...actual selection of the students will be the responsibility of the Committee for Special Recruiting, meeting here in Cambridge...