Word: compacts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...need to examine the life-cycle of the faculty," Fineberg says. "We are in need of a new social compact between the University and the faculty and redefinition of what that means."CrimsonWhat the Deans Think...
...yards of "Mad about Classics," "Weekend Classics," "Heavy Classix," "Inifinity Classics," "Best of Bach" and other compact discs have made fast inroads at retail stores. To these rows upon rows of recordings, most of them inexpensive, numerous classical afficionadoes turn up their collective nose. Why? The artists aren't the most famous, the works aren't complete, the selections pander to popular taste, the recording quality isn't great...
Watch Buster Keaton, in the 19 short films and 11 silent features he made between 1920 and 1928. Watch his beautiful, compact body as it pirouettes or pretzels in tortured permutations or, even more elegantly, stands in repose as everything goes crazy around it. Watch his mind as it contemplates a hostile universe whose violent whims Buster understands, withstands and, miraculously, tames. Watch his camera taking his picture (Keaton directed or supervised all his best films); it is as cool as the star it captured in its glass...
Lamont is the first Harvard library to permit students to check out CD-ROMs, compact discs holding information accessible by computer. Though the CDs have been available since August, the library has just begun to publicize it, according to Amy M. Kautman, Lamont's head reference librarian...