Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...administers a variety of other programs that, however worthy in concept, have degenerated into boondoggles and in some cases may do more harm than good. Every President since Eisenhower has tried to cut back the impact aid program, which was originally designed to help communities with military installations. The idea was to compensate such localities, since they could not tax the bases but had to provide many services for federal employees. Gradually, the scope of the program has expanded to give aid to communities?rich or poor ?with just about any kind of federal facility. There is no chance...
...Core in fact represents a disturbing move away from the cherished, traditional concept of a "liberal education." The plan's rigid requirements, minimally softed by two late amendments, simply do not allow students enough freedom to gain what they see as a balanced education...
...strength on this issue. More than half of all undergraduates marched together on the night of April 27, united in their opposition to a decision they find repugnant and inhumane. In the future, however, the organization spearheading the movement against Harvard's South African investments should be closer in concept to a single body. For all of the protests of the past months to have full impact, the movement must continue to grow. This requires unswerving attention to a single goal: Harvard, and U.S. dollars, out of South Africa...
...Wyatt's words echo the thoughts of former president Nathan M. Pusey '28, who wrote in the late '50s, as Harvard was beginning its expansionist era and purchasing a great deal of property in Cambridge and Boston, that he believed that Harvard's future was closely tied to the concept of creating small communities within the larger community, ensuring Harvard's existence "for a long time to come...
...Rebelle" depicts an abstract concept--rebellion. One black arm reaches high over the head of a figure not recognizably human. The other arm seems atrophied, dwarf-size. There is one red eye in the center of the face: a favorite Surrealist technical device symolizing both inner and outer vision. "La Fronde" harks back to the theories of Sigmund Freud, one of the great heroes of the founder of the Surrealist movement. A person with a tiny head and huge, bloated body curls around in an endless, crazy, frightened somersault--a Freudian might see it as a picture of someone...