Word: detective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...might have achieved, the countless hours spent at coursework, the imagination and creativity both inspired and refined. But, like a mirage in the desert, Harvard--and the image it projects--becomes less and less impressive the closer one looks. Turn to Holworthy or Hollis, and you're likely to detect the sounds (and perhaps a whiff) of the 1980s, spoiling the sense of placidity. And it's doubtful that much besides taste has changed since the days when Lippmann and Reed attended classes in the Yard. Harvard loses its glory when it goes from general to specific. Not the individual...
...through or confined itself to comedy, instead of constantly undercutting one approach with scrappy intimations of the other, the director and cast could perhaps have forged a performance with more shape. If Porter had worked more on a consistent interpretation of the musical, that shape would be easier to detect. Something must give Purlie its enduring popularity besides the gags and snappy tunes that, even here, brought some viewers to their feet--but, faced with this structureless and contradictory melange, an audience is hard put to guess what...
Giovanni Fazio, who is also a lecturer on Astronomy, is the only Harvard scientist with a definite slot for his experiment--on space lab II, the shuttle's 22nd flight, now scheduled for 1984. Fazio's proposal is a telescope designed to detect regions in the galaxy where stars are being born. On earth such a telescope is cluttered by infrared rays from "atmospheric junk," Fazio explains. An infrared telescope on the space shuttle, however, would be expected to collect more accurate and complete data...
Gorenstein's proposal--still on hold--is a "large area module array of reflectors," known as LAMAR, which is designed to detect X-rays from a range of sources including stars, galaxies and black holes. "LAMAR will allow us to precisely locate various cosmic objects and lead us to a better understanding of their nature," Gorenstein said, adding that LAMAR's bank of reflectors will also simultaneously survey the universe at a wider angle than previously possible...
...atmosphere of deliberate calm, Mubarak launched a purge, including the transfer of hundreds of army officers and civil servants of "fanatical religious tendencies" to less sensitive posts, and an investigation of the failure of military intelligence to detect the presence of the armed assassins who gunned down Sadat. He also authorized the "preventive" arrests of several hundred known civilian extremists of both the left and right and asked the People's Assembly for legislation imposing the death penalty on anyone found guilty of unlawful use of firearms...