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...theory, a computer requirement seems both reasonable and beneficial, but in practice it has a long way to go. What students need is a program to meet the requirement rather than a scattered series of tests and haphazard ultimatums...
HARVARD'S DELUXE brochure in honor of the College's 350th anniversary is here. Glimpses of the Harvard Past, written by four Harvard history professors, Bernard Bailyn, Donald Fleming, Oscar Handlin, and Stephan Thernstrom, is a haphazard survey of the growth of the College from its foundation to the present...
...also possesses a daughter named Charlotte, 39, who has been married some 20 years to Horace Nettleship, a dry-as-dust geologist 15 years older than his increasingly unhappy wife. Horace's long research into volcanic lava has convinced him "that Creation has been a more ponderously slow and haphazard process than was suggested by the opening chapters of the Book of Genesis." The resultant loss of his faith in Christianity has left Horace painfully vulnerable to other blows. Bad enough that Charlotte has not spoken to him during the past 15 years of their marriage. Now his son Lionel...
That pack and her haphazard life-style had all but crippled her when she finally returned to the U.S. in 1972. Facing surgery, Pinckney decided instead to refine some exercises she had learned during years of adolescent ballet lessons. So impressive were the results that she began to teach friends in New York City, where she was living (and where she had changed her name to Callan on the advice of a numerologist). Enraged by what she considered misinformation in other exercise books, she spent two years writing her own. Pinckney contends that most exercises do not reach far enough...
Alas, the '80s have become bedtime for Gonzo, so the occasion seems prime for a chronicle of the show. Saturday Night, subtitled "a backstage history," does remarkably thorough research on incredibly haphazard troupes. Authors Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad sometimes let enthusiasm get in the way of level judgment--Baudelaire and Blake are cited among S.N.L's spiritual fathers--but their book works up a vivid frontline fever as it relates the conceptual brawls, bad trips on the twin drugs of cocaine and sudden fame, psychological entanglements, romantic skirmishes and perpetual pitched battles with the censors involved in getting...