Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First, by bringing Washington officials to Cambridge, the Institute could provide those professors interested in policy problems with valuable information which is unavailable elsewhere. As a reciprocal gesture, Hoffmann continues, the professors could "psychoanalyze" the experiences of the officials and help them reflect on current policy problems. If this kind of relationship isn't achieved, the faculty-associates meetings will degenerate into social occasions -- too general to be useful...
...plays (plus about 25 options), depend as always on a tight, pressing defense and a run-and-shoot offense to win their games. But now they are more of a thinking team-because Russell encourages them to be. "We're all invited to participate," says Guard Jones. "We help him keep track of team fouls and individual fouls. We keep our eyes open for switches the other team might make." Not that Russell necessarily accepts the advice. "I absorb the intelligence," he says, "but the decisions are made by the man in charge...
...stage. This is where Richard Pasco's failure is most manifest. He portrays a computer's Hamlet, mechanically feeding himself punch cards marked Father's Ghost, Ophelia, Laertes, Horatio, Polonius, Claudius, Gertrude, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and responding mechanically to them. His co-players do not perceptibly help by acting like crumpled punch cards...
...Joyce), has threaded the labyrinth, determined to demonstrate that Finnegans Wake is more than just a grammarian's funeral. He has reduced the text by about two-thirds, added an introduction that is admirable for clarity, good sense and erudition, and has placed commentaries here and there to help any dog-Latinist through the Joycean style. Even so, the plain reader (if such exists) will soon find himself in waters deeper than the River Liffey...
This year's freshmen are good in events where the varsity is not so good, and they should be a big help next year. The broad jumpers will be especially valuable. Against Yale and Princeton, three of them leaped over 22 ft.--farther than any Harvard varsity man could do that...