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On the positive side, cost of living adjustments have enabled Israelis to withstand the onslaught of triple-digit inflation without succumbing to the moral decay, disillusion with democratic institutions and political polarization that are normally associated with a prolonged period of soaring prices. Israelis have continued to save at their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Indexation Gone Rampant | 7/28/1980 | See Source »

As Ivy teams expect more and more that they will have a shot at the golden ring on the national sports merry-go-round, the pressures and the frustration mount. It is a vicious, self-perpetuating cycle that must be dealt with now, before too many more athletes drift throught...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous | 5/21/1980 | See Source »

Bok's argument in this report ultimately rebounds on itself. If liberal arts in fact forms the foundation of the humanistic appreciation alumni need to confront what Bok calls "a world amply stocked with anxiety and disillusion...," then it is the essential preface to professional education. It cannot be the...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: Whither Liberal Arts? | 4/29/1980 | See Source »

February, 1978: Disillusion--I had my Beanpot gig down now. My brother, a freshman with brother, a freshman with sophomore standing in Beanpot Appreciation, arrived with me at the Garden at 4:30, 90 minutes before the start of the Harvard-Northeastern opener. We played pinball (they still have one...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Did Mom Tell You About The Beanpot? | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

The fact that the humanities are neither vigorously pursued nor defended at Harvard--except as fodder for the Social Science harvester--is compounded by the illusion that art as a mental discipline is less demanding than science. To begin to appreciate 14th century Italian painting requires at least a thousand...

Author: By Philip Swan, | Title: The Sad State of Arts at Harvard | 11/15/1979 | See Source »

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