Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people have come to think of modern art as a sequence of movements, group activities. Neither Pablo Picasso nor Georges Braque could have created it on his own: it was a truly cooperative process in which Picasso (for a short time) was relieved of the psychic burden of egoistic creation -- the loneliness of the virtuoso -- and the more cautious and measured Braque was spurred into radical experiment. It marks, more clearly than any other, the point at which modern art broke away from commonsense vision and split its audience into a tiny coterie who "got it" and a large majority...
This interaction between Harvard and government authorities should continue, but on a larger scale. In an interview yesterday, Kleiman suggested the creation of a drug center along the lines of Harvard's inter-disciplinary effort to combine research and public policy questions stemming from the spread of the AIDS virus...
From the personal attitudes and behavior of students, to the creation of a special center to study drugs, to increased efforts by the university police to arrest drug offenders, the University can and should make a greater effort to win the drug...
...Milken's creation had fallen on hard times even before the Campeau mess. So far this year, borrowers have defaulted on a record $3.2 billion worth of junk bonds, already $1 billion more than during all 1988. Among the notable casualties was Merv Griffin's Resorts International, which conceded last month that it could not meet its annual interest and principal payments of $133 million...
...Verba Committee had proposed the creation of a separate administrative framework intended to move departments away from traditional hiring networks when making tenure decisions. The panel had called for a faculty member other than the department chair to serve as a "departmental representative for affirmative action...