Word: calendars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what is the opposing historical force that leads intellectuals astray? College towns like Cambridge, whose populations fluctuate with the academic calendar. In fact, New York Intellect can be viewed as a history of the academization of intellectuals as much as anything else...
Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet is roaring across America for the first time in eight years, the grandest event on the 1987 dance calendar. Indeed, with the spirit of glasnost flourishing and international artistic exchange becoming commonplace, it may be several years before the arrival of a foreign troupe causes such excitement. The performances on the four-city circuit (New York, Washington, San Francisco, Los Angeles) are practically sold out. At the Metropolitan Opera House the crowds have patiently worked their way through strict security checks. Arguments among balletomanes about whether the company lives up to its legend are steamier than...
Goldenberg opposed Harvard's current calendar because "it makes Christmas a non-vacation, extending the stress period until January, when we have a whole month of hell ahead...
...former member of the council's Academic Committee Melissa S. Lane '88 says she preferred the traditional calendar because it gives students the "leisure of having time to think, write and reflect. It gives the semester a coherence...
...calendar now is functioning very well, if anything, a change would cause disruption to peoples lives," he says...