Word: foresights
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...Davis, information about schools like Harvard came not from parents with extensive foresight but from the high-school academic track of math leagues and competitions. His father graduated from Western Michigan University; his mother did not attend college...
Their obsolescence is being planned not just because they are old, but also because their builders didn't have the foresight to provide them with club seating, luxury boxes and Hard Rock Cafes. It would be easy to blame the baseball owners for being greedy, and make no mistake, they are. But their co-conspirators and enablers are legion: politicians, corporations, economists, fans, journalists. Sportswriters who once thought the designated hitter was the end of civilization now dismiss the old ball parks as inconvenient anachronisms. Tiger Stadium? "Bad neighborhood," say my brethren. Fenway Park? "Hey, it's a sardine...
...just not where I am headed. That's okay, I assure myself--no one is expected to know the precise academic and professional course his or her life will take at such early stages in the game. Correction: No one outside of Harvard is assumed to possess such foresight. But amid the red-bricked buildings of Cambridge, we are not only expected but required to predict what we see ourselves doing for a while, if not forever...
...other hand, Paul's revelations didn't reveal anything probability couldn't: I'll have two children, one smart; my career will be intellectual-ish; and my libido is on an accelerating upswing. Nothing I couldn't have told you. But Paul's foresight wasn't entirely banal. He told me how to spot Murderer's Thumb--broad at the knuckle, narrow at the top. A statistically significant proportion of death row inmates have it. He also tried to justify his art by citing its genetic basis: apparently 60 percent of babies born with a simial line (when the intellect...
...what of the hall itself? The administration has already concluded that it is useless. The administration, however, lacks foresight. The time may come when just such a space is needed. The lack of gathering spaces at Harvard will leave a great void in University life. The Great Hall, however, could easily assume some of the functions which house dining halls once had. The hall could be used as a multi-functional center. Its location and size are obviously ideal. Meetings, receptions, speeches, dancers, exhibitions and small concerts and recitals, could be held in it. The Union Hall would thus continue...