Word: givens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...music both of which require that the listener impose a discipline on himself, that he abstract from the music to his own being. These two less starkly structured musical forms involve one's conscious relating to the music and so are helped by the intermediary of atmosphere and mood. Given this right environment and the appropriate mental attention they can be as beautiful as, or more beautiful than, rock 'n' roll...
...Given the effects of the general non-coeducational character of life at Harvard and Radcliffe, what steps should be taken...
...amazed by how much he looked the way he was supposed to. I imagined for a moment that his face had been remodelled by representatives of the mass media to match the image which they have popularized--even more, he looked like a Nixon cartoon given life. I had expected that meeting Nixon would tend to humanize the plastic, electronic Nixon-image that I had always known, but I found the real Nixon overpowered in my mind by the plastic. As we talked, I thought with astonishment of the millions of synthetic Nixon-images which this one Nixon-mold...
...anyone who knows that methadone itself is an addicting drug, the immediate and inevitable question is: Why is it being given to these real (but fictitiously named) drug addicts? Many reputable physicians have despaired of getting any substantial number of hard core heroin addicts to kick the habit even after long-term confinement and psychiatric treatment - 80% to 90% soon relapse. So the doctors have concluded that the best thing to do is to fight fire with fire...
...during the trial period. The only trouble with the experiment itself is that it may make some undergraduates move who would rather stay put. No one should be forced to move any further than to a room in another entry of his House, and these unfortunates should be given first choice among the vacated rooms...