Word: focusing
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...financial pressures that the University faces. We also recognize that the candidate selection procedure is itself not wholly democratic. We also recognize, however, what the University seems to be forgetting--that Overseers are responsible not only for maintaining economic stability but also for overseeing academic programs and institutional focus. According to Harvard's own publications, the board should "bring new ideas and fresh viewpoints to the University, to prevent provincialism, inbreeding and self-satisfaction." Furthermore, Harvard's praiseworthy policy of encouraging alumni participation through elections, which serves to broaden the University's base for self-evaluation and policy making...
...some wildly-shrieking pretty young thing in the front row to break up the action a little bit, but this movie has an unusual-and unusually good number of audience shots. Pretty girls abound, of course, including two rather stoned out young women in obscene costume, but the focus is really on the Deadheads themselves. The Deadheads constitute the most devoted fans in the rock world since the Beatles stopped touring back in 1966, and they are a singularly fried bunch of people. Their enthusiasm, expressed in their LSD-induced nodding stares, is captured in harmony with the music they...
...acted upon by historical forces. They should realize that women have contributed directly to events through history, she added, the difficulty of establishing a women's studies program here by discussing similar problems at Yale. The major criticism of Yale's program has been its lack of a definite focus in one discipline, as well as the difficulty of finding qualified instructors, she added...
Harris's approach tends to be thematic rather than strictly chronological. Thus chapters focus on such topics as "The Origins of War" or "The Origins of Male Supremacy and the Oedipus Complex," and "The Hydraulic Trap." One cannot help but admire the conviction with which Harris explains these phenomena. It is as if, although aware of the piranhas infesting the river, Harris nevertheless struck out on his own across one of those swaying rope bridges so apt to collapse without warning. Indeed, Harris's writing is refreshingly free of the usual academese infestations of "Perhaps" and "It may well...
...first one to face a crisis threatening its whole survival may console those who are comforted in adversity by company (though the companions in this instance are all dead) but otherwise there seem to be few points of reference between an Ancient Egyptian despotism and a democracy today. Harris' focus on technology defeats itself when one considers the developments in science alone of the last century and a half. The book does not provide a step into understanding the destiny of our culture. It does add a wealth of fascinating material to the debate on the origins of culture...