Word: either
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said the Core "represents a vast improvement over what I was exposed to in college--but then, I didn't go to Harvard, either...
...words, perhaps a word more embarrassing even than "morality"... It has, nonetheless, a firm, hard-headed sense that names the single quality without which true art cannot exist... We read or listen to or look at works of art in the hope of experiencing our highest, most selfless emotion, either to reach a sublime communication with the maker of the work, sharing his affirmations as common lovers do, or to find, in works of literature, characters we love as we do real people...
Unfortunately, most of the present pressure on legislators comes from utility front organizations, such as the Edison Electric Institute, that recognize the threat solar energy poses to their profits. Solar flares, although spectacular, won't bring us closer to solar energy either. But better presentations--along the lines of Sun Day--can inform people of the practicality and inevitability of a massive American turn towards...
Khan appreciates Western music--jazz, disco, opera--as long as it is unadulterated. His reactions to music are either emotional or intellectual. Bach intrigues him because his complicated fugues resemble Indian classical music in their repetition and variations on one theme. Maria Callas and Bartok are his favorites. "Bartok's compositions are so intricate, but like in Indian music he never uses more than ten notes at a time. Maria Callas--she is my type of lady. She does what she feels and doesn't play for others...
...incoming freshman asked me, "If the majority of the Harvard Community wants Harvard out of South Africa, how can the Corporation rightly go against their will?" All that I could answer was, "I can't believe it either." I told him about the Harvard "tradition" and then discussed previous instances where the Harvard administration refused to comply with the desires of the students...