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That overstates the case, but there's something to what Levy says. The crux of his argument is that the Mac moved computer users into the realm of metaphor. By making the internal workings of a machine as cozy as a living room, the Macintosh allowed people to feel at ease in cyberspace, that "ephemeral territory perched on the lip of math and firmament," as Levy describes it, or, more simply, "the place where my information lives...
Something in the Core Curriculum is fundamentally wrong--wrong, as in unjust. The latest debates about the Core have confined themselves to discussions of new areas and the overall scope of courses. But the crux of the problem lies deeper within Harvard's most onerous requirement. By discouraging students from exploring many departments outside their own fields, the Core exacerbates exactly the problem it was meant to remedy...
Stone also concentrated on health care reform's impact on the insurance industry. "The crux of reform to me is can we do away with this perversity--the perversity being the insuring of the healthy?" she said...
...dominant animal at Tanglewood is, without a doubt, the social one, and here lies the crux of the enigma. The social animal does not come to a concert to listen to music; it comes to see, be seen and to be able to recount what it saw. Turnout was probably increased more by the magnitude of the soloists' reputations than the prerequisite quality of their playing. An up-and-coming pair of players might not have fared so well in this environment...
...crux of the matter is that Clinton has introduced a new category of meaning into the English language. Until now politicians could use the indicative mood to tell us facts. They could command their fellow Americans in the imperative mood, or muse on what they might do in the subjuctive mood...