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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...makes it easier for the student," says A.W. Phinney, the English Department's assistant head tutor for seniors. "They have a head start...
...graduate student in the Department of English and American Literature and Language, as well as a part-time programmer for OIT and for Harvard Computer Services at the Science Center, I read Susan Glasser's excellent article [9/14/88, page 13] on the new HOLLIS system with great interest. HOLLIS is terriffic; I will be using it all the time. I must take issue, however, with some of the boosterism reflected bvy remarks by library officials suggesting that the system is "absolutely state-of-the-art." Whatever the state of the art is, it is not HOLLIS. HOLLIS cannot do keyword...
While Councillor Alice K. Wolf said she applauded the spirit of a a policy written "in English instead of Zoningese," she asked whether the length of time required to design the new plan could jeopardize communities with immediate problems...
...pursuit of profundities. Former Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, for example, was seldom sounded for his views on Western civilization. What sets Giamatti apart from everyone else who has held a comparable position of authority in U.S. sports is his background. He once made his living as a professor of English and comparative literature, with a particular interest in the Italian Renaissance. Odder still, he was at age 40 the youngest person in 200 years to be installed as the president of Yale University, in 1978. (Around the time of his selection, Giamatti made a wry, self-deprecatory remark that seems...
...will be Wild Night in Odessa. Then he goes back to his drums, and all hell breaks loose. The six-member Nisht Geferlach klezmer band erupts into the raucous, sometimes haunting music that one member describes as "Dixieland meets Eastern Europe." Patt, 37, the soloist, explains every song in English before singing in fluid Yiddish, his language of record as a boy in the Amalgamated cooperative houses in the West Bronx...