Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once upon a time the weekend races in April served merely as a tuneup for the Harvard heavyweight crew. The Crimson would routinely swamp all competition leading up to the Eastern Sprints in May, whereupon Harvard's performance would either seal of doom an undefeated season...
...looking, with a voice of steel, while the more ineffectual Calpurnia (Melinda McCrary) has a habit of turning back and forth to the various characters on stage, as if entreating them to listen to her. And when Caesar's ghost walks across the stage to warn Brutus of impending doom--an effect which, like the ghost scene in Hamlet, tends to inspire the most ridiculous devices imaginable from directors afraid of seeming naive--Cameron-Webb manages to achieve total straightforwardness. A panel of the Capitol slides up, revealing a blue-scrim sky, and the silhouetted monarch simply walks across...
Though Eugene dearly, if undemonstratively, loves his family, he announces the members of the household like coming attractions he would rather not see. Mother (Elizabeth Franz) is an obsessive homemaker with the bawl of a staff sergeant. She inhales imminent doom with every breath. When Eugene asks why he cannot buy a half-pound of butter in the morning instead of a quarter-pound each in the a.m. and p.m., his mother retorts with fatalistic logic: "Suppose the house burned down this afternoon...
...linking up with Toyota, GM is making a virtue of necessity. Like other U.S. manufacturers, it has not been able to solve the manufacturing and financial equations of small cars. Design problems helped doom the Corvair in the 1960s and the Vega in the 1970s. The rear-wheel-drive Chevette, introduced in 1975, is obsolete and overdue for replacement. As a stopgap, GM has been planning to import 200,000 subcompacts made by Isuzu starting next year, and there are tentative plans to bring in up to 80,000 smaller minicars from Suzuki Motor Co. So far, the giant automaker...
This is, after all, the University where a dean, in his annual report, once quoted the Chinese Curse of Doom, "May you live in an age of transition." Transition--and open, intellectual debate on even the most time-honored of policies--are signs of health and adaptability, not weakness. Until the administrators who run Harvard recognize that--not just on paper, but in practice as well--the University will continue to stick by policies, like those on gay rights and sexual harassment, that are hopelessly outdated. And it will continue to waste a lot of great minds--those of Harvard...