Word: alterations
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That Mozart is also the alter ego of senior music concentrator Robert Levin is no accident. Levin dates the loss of his musical virginity at the age of five and has been busily at work ever since. In the vocabulary of a prominent member of the Music Department, he has all the "equipment": perfect pitch, near-total recall, ability to read scores at sight, digital dexterity, and a catholic if necessarily incomplete cerebral storehouse of music from the 17th century to the present. At Harvard he has been chiefly occupied as classical music guru at WHRB, in addition to somewhat...
...Named for the doctor who accidentally helped to open the door to research in brain chemistry in 1928 by discovering that overdoses of insulin can drastically alter the course of some mental illnesses...
Student and Faculty representation on the Board of Overseers would not radically alter the balance of power in the University. Through Harvard's history, power has continually been shifted from the central administration to the various faculties. Decentralization, which has for the most part been a beneficial development, would not be reversed if the Board of Overseers were democratically opened to all persons connected with the University...
This possibility loomed large in President Kirk's mind during the six days of waiting. Yet he could not allow amnesty for the demonstrators because that would, as he said, "alter the foundations of every university." The demonstrators couldn't give in: they had not accomplished their goal. The administration couldn't give in, because then the demonstrators would not have to. Yet there was the risk that in reversing a temporary status quo to enforce the more permanent one, the administration would alienate its student support...
...friend Pierre Bezukhov (played by Director Bondarchuk), who represent the two faces of the aristocracy. The outlines of the plot are familiar even to those nonreaders who saw the 1956 miniversion, with Audrey Hepburn, Mel Ferrer, and Henry Fonda. Andrei, a sophisticate and soldier, is unable to alter his archaic sensibilities and perishes in the war. Pierre, muddling through the chaos around him, does nothing right, but because he has the capacity to grow and change, he survives. Between the two flutters the lissome Natasha (Ludmila Savelyeva) as she grows from spritely adolescence to tragic womanhood...