Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Funding problems caused the scrapping of a central computer center last February, and now will delay construction on both Science Instruction Development Labs (SIDL) and a large science library in the basement...
That the choice is a personal one and that it does have political effects are the central points. Radical attacks on faculty research have been met with firm replies about the sanctity of "academic freedom." Professors steadfastly resist the notion that there should be political tests for scholarly work, or that students should have any influence on the direction of that scholarship...
...character gave motivation a clarity it had lacked. The motives of a character could at last be described in terms of setting, objects, camera motions. Character description could become one more element in a worldorder which aspired to completeness in each director's expression. Character delincation had been a central element, and a central inadequacy: now it would be an organic part of a visual narrative...
There was one central point that all three of us tried to make during that interview. Since Hyland's report creatively omits any reference to that central point, let me use this space to fill in the gap. In brief, there isn't any Center line of policy, nor any Center brand of polities. According to your taste, you can try to pin a label on the Center by emphasizing the names of Bowie or MacEwen or Hoffman or Bowles or Huntington. All have taken shelter and sustenance from the Center. But if you tried to pin a common label...
Still, on the chance that someone might, let me add a little more substance to one central point: Hyland's Center for International Affairs, that stout arm of the imperialist military-industrial complex, is a fantasy; it simply doesn't exist. As the running dog of a sinister international conspiracy, the real Center would be in very deep trouble indeed. Take some of its activities over the past few years...