Word: factly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chief subject of her pictorial intelligence, her main vehicle of feeling. But every patch of color must have a bounding edge, and Frankenthaler's edges tend to wobble; they are overcomplicated; in some paintings, like Flood, 1967, they just go limp. She is undistinguished as a drafter -- in fact, some of her mature style is an evasion of drawing -- and this helps account for the pulpy side of her lyricism...
...applications go far beyond the shop floor. The principle is at work every time someone takes a total-immersion language lesson, follows a doctor on his rounds to learn how to practice medicine, or tags along with a crack dealer to learn the ropes of the drug trade. In fact, a body of scientists and educators maintains that it is the primary means by which people learn. "If you look at any successful learning situation, chances are you will find elements of apprenticeship," says John Seely Brown of the Institute for Research on Learning in Palo Alto, Calif...
...fact, Verba, a top contender for dean of the Faculty when Spence was appointed five years ago keeps adding administrative posts to his resume. And many of his colleagues say Verba's successes result because he has the connections and the consensus-building skills necessary to push measures through the tangle of Harvard's decentralized bureaucracy...
...fact, Bok's colleagues say the 59-year-old president sees himself more as a judge than a consensus-builder, relying on his own intensive legalistic analysis to determine what is right and wrong...
...fact for students is this: a community does not learn to resolve the past's legacy of anger and injustice by ignoring the problem in the present. We cannot understand our neighbor if we never see him. That only 1.8 percent of Harvard's just under 400 senior faculty are Black is troubling, nearly outrageous...