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Word: havoc (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some say Harvard has no real responsibility to the city, that it is an independent entity accountable only to its educational mission. More realistically, that mission has been mishandled in such a way as to create havoc in the city, a debt the University must repay. But even if Harvard has no desire to work together with the city, Cambridge's new-found power gives the University incentive. Harvard must change its ways or have the city change them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Agenda for the Year | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

Some say Harvard has no real responsibility to the city, that it is an independent entity accountable only to its educational mission. More realistically, that mission has been mishandled in such a way as to create havoc in the city, a debt the University must repay. But even if Harvard has no desire to work together with the city, Cambridge's new-found power gives the University incentive. Harvard must change its ways or have the city change them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Agenda for the Year | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

SUPPOSE THERE ARE two academic centers of power vying for intellectual hegemony--call them Harvard and Yale. Harvard, long dominant in struggles for primacy, has grown complacent. Yale, meanwhile, has devised a cunning plot designed to wreak havoc at Harvard and pave the way for its own ultimate victory in the cold war of academia...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Don't Touch That Story--It's Unpatriotic | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

...reduced turmoil, providing them with a safe, acceptable outlet for their anti-social urges. The stories themselves rely heavily on archetypes, and some of the best films of the genre have an allegorical, fairy-tale quality. In pop psychology terms, the monster emerges from the viewer's id, wreaks havoc for awhile, and is destroyed by the hero, who represents the triumphant super...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Monsters Within Us | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

...reduced turmoil, providing them with a safe, acceptable outlet for their anti-social urges. The stories themselves rely heavily on archetypes, and some of the best films of the genre have an allegorical, fairy-tale quality. In pop psychology terms, the monster emerges from the viewer's id, wreaks havoc for awhile, and is destroyed by the hero, who represents the triumphant super...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Monsters Within Us | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

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