Word: breaking
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...people for anything." Harvard especially appeals to students because of its reputation for academic excellence and generous financial aid policy. The non-denominational status also attracts people. Most Catholic students at the Div School have attended Catholic grammar schools, high schools and colleges, Swain says, and "want a break from a kind of ghetto educational experience...
Torraco says schools such as Harvard allow people to "break through stereotypes." He adds, "To live with students from other religious backgrounds is a challenge you won't get in a denominational school. In a Catholic seminary, for example, everybody's celibate. You're surrounded by these people, so it's sort of easy to assume the whole world is celibate. But as a priest, I'm not going to be dealing with a celibate parish...
Balanced scoring and effective passing characterized the Harvard offense, with six players hitting double figures. Banks and Booker led the team with 16 markers each while Fine and Frank Konstantynowicz deftly dealt the ball to teammates on the fast break to record the majority of the 24 assists attributed to the Crimson hoopsters...
Some of the most informed apprehensions about computers are expressed by Professor Joseph Weizenbaum of M.I.T.'s Laboratory for Computer Science. Human dependence on computers, Weizenbaum argues, has already become irreversible, and in that dependence resides a frightening vulnerability. It is not just that the systems might break down; the remedy for that could eventually be provided by a number of back-up systems. Besides, industrialized man is already vulnerable to serious dislocations by breakdowns?when the electrical power of New York City goes out, for example. Perhaps a greater danger, says Weizenbaum, lies in the fact that "a computer...
...Music's revival. The locale of the play is a small New Hampshire town in 1777. The colonies are at war with England. The British plan to hang a Yankee rebel. That man is the Rev. Anderson (Barnard Hughes). But he is away from home when the redcoats break in, and they mistake Dick Dudgeon (Chris Sarandon) for the pastor, since he is having tea with the pastor's wife. Dudgeon is the village scapegrace, a man so revolted by narrow-spirited Puritan cant that he has proclaimed himself "the devil's disciple...