Word: arcing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...committee, as of last month, is seriously considering inclusion of Boylston Hall in the humanities arc, to join Burr Hall, the Freshman Union and Warren House...
...Gordon), is obviously of the school that believes all inclusiveness is a reasonable trade-off for insight. Or maybe, like a lot of literary biographers these days, he can't bear to omit any of his research. But his approach prevents Wyatt Earp from developing a compelling dramatic arc, and it doesn't help a rather glum and withdrawn Kevin Costner make the eponymous protagonist into a dynamic or even very attractive figure. Mostly he is fate's pawn, grimly enduring one damn thing after another...
...some scholars on the committee in women's studies, in particular, are afraid their group will lose its unique identity in the new arc...
Those plans, however, prompted a stir at a Faculty Council meeting in April. Some professors are questioning whether the arc is really an effort to cut costs, and others have wondered aloud whether departments slated for the new area can opt, not to move...
...fight over the arc is likely to become nastier when final blueprints are drawn up later this year...