Word: concepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Long live concept albums! The Olivia Tremor Control, a loose group of musical misfits based in Athens, Georgia, manage to start off with everything that's wrong with concept albums and end up with everything that's right. First, begin with the pretentious, overly intellectual premise: the OTC set out to create an audible representation of dreams within music that pulses "with the rhythms of modern life." Next, toss in some unnecessarily complex musical tampering: a bass line from one original song is altered for various other songs whose remaining components are then manipulated and layered on top of other...
...students are asking that the University, as a private employer, embrace a concept of "living wage" that has been adopted only by municipalities and which has applied only to city employees and to entities with large municipal contracts. Should a large private employer like Harvard, whose employees live in many different areas, comport itself in relation to the cities which spend public funds to pay workers who likely live where they work...
...what counts as a confession. Women can be Janet Reno or Monica Lewinsky (for argument s sake, we ll say she s pretty). Everyone understands the concept of not pretty equals intelligent equals better than men, while pretty equals dumb equals slave to men. We categorize women into butch or airhead, prude or slut, dim-wit or smartadivisions with little gradation in between. Men, on the other hand, have the liberty of wearing pretty much anything and still having their intelligence and ability determined byasurprise!atheir intelligence and ability. The unfair smart-or-dumb distinction for women looks like...
...lecture class with hundreds of students, the professor 's teaching ability may not b as important as the skill of the Teaching Fellow (TF) explaining diffcult concept or leading a meaningful discussion...
...well; just in the five years since we marked the last anniversary, controversy over the takeover was reignited when former Dunster House Senior Tutor Roger Rosenblatt published hisComing Apart, a memoir of Harvard at the time of the takeover. Like so much of the 1960's--the abstract concept of "the sixties" is condemned by conservatives as the root of every problem from drug abuse to the Clinton presidency and praised by liberals as the heyday of the civil rights movement--University Hall has been inflated to near-mythic status...