Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...practical level, Harvard lacks any sort of long-standing central mechanism with which students could coordinate something like a meaningful teaching reform campaign or divestiture drive. Undergraduate government, with or without newfangled committee flow charts and a $60,000 budget, inspires little vigorous participation. The vast array of Harvard's other non-academic activities far out-shine the prospect of tedious debates which often end in the same broad realization: Institutional reform evolves on a geological time scale ill-suited to four-year visitors. Moreover, the House system and the cheery residential chauvinism it guarantees suffice for making minor living...
Telephone makers plug into profits with an array of new products...
...reclusive multimillionaire who preferred to work all night. A man terrified of germs who fought his growing array of ailments with a variety of drugs and massive vitamin injections. A brilliant and dominating figure who built an empire and who was both revered and feared. And now, to make the comparison more compelling still, the question of his fate. Even longtime intimates have not seen him in more than two years. They do not know whether he is living in seclusion by his own choice, or whether he is mentally incompetent and a captive of former underlings. Some...
Smith was an extremely fecund artist. One array of steel parts clanked down and pushed around on the cement floor of his studio could set off a train of associations that led with Picassoan abruptness to a whole group of pieces. For this reason, the National Gallery's show, curated by Art Historian E.A. Carmean, concentrates on the role of series in Smith's work, on how sculptural sets arose out of particular opportunities. The show also has much to say about how material determines imagery in Smith's work. But above all, it is an aesthetic...
...array of tough questions-practical, legal, moral, even metaphysical-is being examined. Is the death penalty an effective, much less a necessary, deterrent to murder? Is it fair? That is, does it fall equally on the wealthy white surgeon represented by Edward Bennett Williams and the indigent black with court-appointed (and possibly perfunctory) counsel? Most fundamental, is it civilized to take a life in the name of justice...