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...brother is a legend in American music. Even within his family, Ira was heir to the unintentional slight: his father Morris could remember George's melodies, but to him Ira's song title Fascinating Rhythm was Fashion on the River. Working in George's immense shadow bred a wry modesty in Ira. For a 1959 collection of his lyrics, he wrote that "any resemblance to actual poetry, living or dead, is highly improbable." True, when printed on the naked page. But dressed in a sumptuous refrain and delivered by the right performer, Ira's lyrics could...
Sociology, in general, is an extremely wide-ranging field prone to battles over such topics as which research methodology is best. At Harvard, this confusion has bred personnel disputes, with professor split over whether to hire empirical specialists, who work often with statistics and computers, or researchers who take a more historical or theoretical approach...
This was the method pursued by Francis Parkman (1823-93), a wealthy and well-bred Bostonian who entered Harvard in 1840 and began experiencing what he called "symptoms of 'Injuns' on the brain." These soon led to an ambitious disease; the undergraduate decided to write the history of "the whole course of the American conflict between France and England." This task, which lasted his lifetime, was fulfilled in seven books that were published between...
...frequency of fire alarms also poses a safety hazard, officials say. The repeated alarms sometimes several in a single night at the same House--have bred a lackadaisical attitude toward evacuating. Students in some Houses have made it a custom to blast their stereo to muffle the strens. "If we had a real fire, everyone in Winthrop would just fry," says Winthrop Master James A. Davis...
...year to turn down a tenured post, dealing a blow to the department's efforts to build up its senior faculty. All three are specialists in the quantitative branch of sociology, a field split by a general dispute as to the best methods of research. Confusion has bred personnel disputes at Harvard, with professors split over whether to hire data analysis or researchers with more historical and theoretical approaches...