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...extremely difficult to cite estimates of adult illiteracy--mainly because they come from different surveys and are based on different standards of literacy. Literacy is not an all or none condition. It is a point on a continuum from lower to higher levels of literacy development...
Harvard President James Bryant Conant '13 was a strong supporter of the public school system and during his tenure established the scholarship system that drew talented students from around the country to Cambridge. He recognized that Harvard must never lose sight of the entire continuum of the educational system, a sentiment that the new endowment captures...
Digital gives you "just the facts, ma'am." And digested. Digital arbitrarily cuts up the continuum of information into bite-size bits, selects pieces and presents them back glued together to simulate the original continuum. That makes for efficiency. Because numbers can be instantly checked for errors and instantly re-sent, digital information can be transmitted over vast distances and through imperfect media without distortion. It arrives intact at the other end, ready to be turned back into a whole. But not quite the whole...
...twice," Stefan Kanfer writes at the outset of The International Garage Sale, quoting Karl Marx, "the first time as tragedy, the second as farce." Some 200 pages later, many of them stingingly funny, Kanfer ends his novel invoking the same message. Yet the novel itself lies somewhere on the continuum between tragedy and farce. Ostensibly it is a sardonic burlesque of the United Nations (here thinly disguised as the World Body) and its present-day cast of characters, but underneath runs a current of sadness that the ideals of the 1940s have been overrun by the travesties...
Noting that he has witnessed other changes in the land during his own travels. Tassel says his work is part of a continuum: his "now" pictures will eventually become "then" pictures for other photo-historians...