Word: disconnected
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...Economics is not a science,” he said. “[It is] a set of values posing as science.” Suzuki said the practice of renaming the natural world as “externalities” is the root of the disconnect between modern society and the environment. The “mindless commitment” to infinite economic growth, he said, does not correspond with finite “natural capital.” Suzuki also reflected upon the change in Homo sapiens, who went from living in small isolated groups in Africa...
...Synge’s “The Playboy of the Western World” may be just the sort of first step needed to finally make Harvard a place where Irish artistic culture lives. But in order to be successful, these groups will have to overcome years of disconnect with both the Harvard student body and the Irish community beyond its gates...
...this disconnect might be due to the focus of the Celtic department, which has tended to emphasize medieval more than modern Ireland and Irish...
...notice that when they ask someone’s opinion in the beginning stages, they ask their leading students, their good students, their involved students; but that doesn’t necessarily represent the student body,” House said.Toffoli, the 2005 graduate, also recalled this disconnect between students and school officials.“The kids kind of on the bottom of the achievement gap, if they find help and find motivation, then they can really achieve,” he said. “But the problem is that doesn’t really happen with most...
While I have been in Faculty meetings and had the privilege of speaking with professors for Crimson articles about their concerns for research and their undergraduates, most Harvard students see their professors for six hours a week. This disconnect is not the fault of conservatism, or anti-semitism; it has to do with a lack of communication. Most students have not perused the collection of essays on general education penned by professors Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. ’53, Helen Vendler, Stanley H. Hoffman, Richard F. Thomas, and others, offering insight into the thought process that supposedly guides...