Word: central
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...report is the culmination of three-and-a-half years of effort and an attempt by worried professors to devise a scheme to provide a better education for students at Harvard. The central questions--the questions that have historically dominated debates over General Education--remain fairly clear: What is an "educated" person? Who should decide when and how a person is to be educated...
...Another central question-a question that presupposes the inevitability of the Faculty voting for some kind of astringent core curriculum--is whether students will be represented on the core subcommittees. Last week members of the Faculty Council insouciantly ignored a request by the CUE and the ERG to provide for such student representation, and also turned their backs on a host of other recommendations including the establishment of a departmental by-pass mechanism. This merely added insult to injury. The total indifference of the Faculty Council to student opinions can do nothing but foment a somewhat cynical and defiant attitude...
...safe star, and the evil Galactic Empire, momentarily stunned by the mysterious Force, was licking its wounds in preparation for... Star Wars II, of course, and the further adventures of Luke Skywalker. Already scouts are scouring the globe for exotic, unworldly-looking locations, from the jungles of central Africa to the arctic wastes of Lapland, and shooting is expected to begin next February. If all goes well, the Star Wars sequel will be out by Christmas...
...letters to Nikita Khrushchev and to Pravda, in which the writer pleaded not to be exiled from Russia and asserted that he had not been coerced into renouncing the Nobel Prize. Both letters were concocted by Ivinskaya. In the case of the letter to Pravda, she "worked" with a Central Committee official: "Like a pair of professional counterfeiters. We took isolated phrases written or said by Boris and pieced them together in such a way that white was turned into black." Confused and distraught, Pasternak signed. Ivinskaya, who profoundly regrets her part in the letters, had panicked, believing that Pasternak...
...Soviet press accused him of communicating with the Central Intelligence Agency, but the Soviet government has not announced any charges...