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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this tense atmosphere Kluckhohn and Murray found a compatriot with whom they launched a daring endeavor. In 1936, Talcott Parsons had moved into Harvard's Sociology Department after a stint in the Economics Department. Trained as a philosopher and intrigued by several fields within the social sciences, Parsons found his broad interest in the study of man in society stifled in the Economics Department. He wasn't much happier in Sociology. Together with Kluckhohn, Murray and several other scholars, Parsons began considering the benefits of creating a formal alliance of dissatisfied scholars...

Author: By M.d. Nolan, | Title: Drawing Lines: From Social Relations, to PSR, to Psychology | 2/7/1986 | See Source »

What a Life! is the second album from the Australian band Divinyls. Their music is claimed to form a synthesis of punk and pop. Singer Christina Amphlett manages to prove marginally successful in this endeavor, though the sound is generally much closer to pop than to punk...

Author: By Jonathan S. Steuer, | Title: Goldilocks Rock | 1/10/1986 | See Source »

...Executive Committee of the CMES discussed the possibility of CIA funding at its meeting of April 26, 1985. The Committee urged the Director to seek other sources, but concluded that if CIA funding was accepted, the source of support should be disclosed to all potential participants. Professor Safran did endeavor to attract other sources of support but was unable to do so. Funding for the conference was ultimately secured on August 2, 1985 in the form of an individual contract between Professor Safran and the CIA for $40,700, later modified to $45,700. Those who had been invited...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Text of Spence Report on the Safran-CIA Links | 1/6/1986 | See Source »

Science concentrators have the same rationales for writing theses as their humanities-oriented classmates. However, major differences in research methods and results separate the two types of endeavor: the science concentrator often does experimental lab research instead of working with stacks of musty library books and boxes of index cards...

Author: By Eugenia Balodimas, | Title: Honors Seniors Start to Summa-Up College | 12/14/1985 | See Source »

...addition to entertaining the community, Backus says that the club will endeavor to make movies of its own. Since the cost of making an hour-long 16mm sound film is close to $15,000, Backus says that the film society has applied for money from the Undergraduate Council and the Office of the Arts to defray the costs. He adds that the club hopes for "pure profit" from the screenings in the Science Center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Film Society Goes Hollywood | 10/25/1985 | See Source »

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