Word: generationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Now Cray and the company he founded have decided to go their separate ways. In an unexpected move, the firm announced last week that it was splitting into two rival entities: Cray Research, based in Minneapolis, and Cray Computer, based in Colorado Springs and headed by Seymour Cray. The new...
A. No. I don't want to see us ever do away with our nuclear capability in Europe. My No. 1 mission is to deter war, not simply win one. For 500 years, every European generation has had to learn anew about war. Now, for four decades we haven't...
The Harvard of our grandparents' generation was a Harvard that most of them could not have attended. People who were barred from attending this college--because of income, ethnicity or geography--in their youth should not be asked to fund it now.
But two generations and an evolving admissions policy cannot camoflauge the fact that many grandparents would not have been welcome here. Such personal ties to Harvard underlay most individual donations. Eliot, explaining the rationale behind giving, said "the men in this generation who have had the benefit of these funds...
This logic applies to our generation: we can contemplate gifts, because we were allowed to partake in the Harvard community. Harvard still has a long way to go to admit enough women and students from Native American or poor or Black or Hispanic backgrounds and hire a more diverse faculty...