Word: hoc
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...professor, Robert Venturi, returned to Yale with his two dozen student acolytes after a remarkable 10-day expedition to Las Vegas, where they stayed at the Stardust. His influential 1972 book, Learning from Las Vegas, immediately made Venturi famous as a heretical high-culture proponent for the ad hoc, populist design of the Strip -- the giant neon signs, the kitschy architectural allusions to ancient Rome and the Old West, any zany kind of skin-deep picturesqueness. And a decade later, the fringe tendency became a full-fledged movement: Post-Modernism...
...claim of Peretz [surely not on the basis of his own knowledge] that Stager is an extraordinarily narrow specialist can be answered easily by drawing on the dossier collected to present to the President's ad hoc committee appointed to review his appointment to the Dorot Chair. A leitmotif in the recommendations of senior scholars from many nations, including Israel's most distinguished archaeologists, was the extraordinary breadth of Stager's scholarship both in his field and in adjacent fields including anthropology [Stager is a member of Harvard's department of Anthropology], historiography, and historiographic theory, ancient Near Eastern...
...deciding which are the most serious problems confronting society, and giving Harvard the job of solving them, goes beyond the expertise of academic administrators so engrossed in ad hoc tenure committee meetings and academic planning sessions that they barely see The New York Times three days late before they...
...Reagan did with the so-called Boll Weevil Democrats. Quite the opposite: he prevailed on deficit reduction without a single Republican vote, and on NAFTA with more votes from the G.O.P. than from Democrats. Forming two totally different winning alliances is an impressive feat, but pasting together an ad hoc grouping on every issue is an exhausting and chancy task. Yet it is one that Clinton may well have to keep repeating...
Other constitutional amendments approved last night were designed to delineate the officers' roles more clearly than in the original constitution. AAA also voted to officially promote the Educational/Political ad hoc committee to the status of standing committee...