Word: fosters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact that those who entered Harvard in '45 or '46 never lived in Yard as all other first-year students did. Instead, because of the Navy officers still on campus, they moved directly into their Houses. The four years spent together, instead of only three, helped foster House spirit...
...realization. If not engagement, what? Cold war? Hot war? Those are hardly practical choices. And so for 20 years, there has been little daylight visible between the basic ways that Republicans and Democrats have approached the rising power of the world's most populous country, pursuing the effort to foster political reform and global stability by encouraging China's economic development...
Fine. But what I really yearn for, as I watch the beautifully rendered 3-D graph that sprints across my screen in flickering blues, purples and reds, is a Jodie Foster moment. In the movie Contact, you may remember, Foster plays a frustrated SETI scientist who stumbles across an alien radio signal. That's how I see it happening to me: I'll be slumped over my desk in the Time & Life Building, struggling with another bout of writer's block, when all that random noise will suddenly transform itself into a smooth undulating wave...
...David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (Little, Brown; 274 pages; $24) is a mixed bag of 23 essays and short stories that display a range of intellect and talent that is unseemly for any one writer to have, let alone show off. Like the author's earlier work, this collection is designed to keep readers from getting too comfortable. You know the feeling if you had trouble keeping up with the plot lines, arcana and footnotes that spread like kudzu through the 1,000 pages of Wallace's 1996 novel, Infinite Jest...
Though Taylor's views on life (rooted in a disillusioned foster childhood) are questionable, 43 years of extraordinary contributions to the modern dance world have made Taylor an incredible symbol of hard work and talent. Even if you're not savvy on the topic of modern dance and its rightful place in the world, rare footage of Taylor performing his own work makes this film worth seeing...