Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This problem will not go away and, in fact, will only get worse as polling becomes more accurate and quicker projections can be made. On the horizon is the instant-response Qube cable system which would allow immediate living room surveys of constituents via their TV sets...
...total team effort could prove important for the booters with big games against Boston College and UConn on the horizon...
Seen from an airplane, it looks like a giant scar stretching across the Great Plains and over the horizon. For much of last summer, however, the scene featured countless lengths of steel pipe lying like uncooked spaghetti beside deep ditches. Here and there clusters of yellow machines and men in hard hats or baseball caps could be seen, many of them bare-chested under the hot sun, some working under the shade of umbrellas attached to the pipes...
While the educators reorganize their methods, the fundamental goals of the process-truth, knowledge, the understanding of the world-remain somewhere just beyond the horizon. It was said of Goethe, after his death in 1832, that he was the last man to know everything worth knowing. Today's cliche is that 90% of all scientists in the history of the world are alive now. Yet their knowledge has become hopelessly fragmented; the specialist in recombinant DNA feels no more obligation to understand laser surgery than to hear the latest composition by Pierre Boulez...
...journalist, writes sensitively of Harvard's insularity from the rest of Cambridge and Boston, which he strives to overcome by reading and writing about tension between working-class Catholics and Yankee intellectuals. Robert Coles '50, professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities, discusses the same insularity, but his efforts at horizon-expansion culminate in a mealy-mouthed dpiphany in a drugstore, where a kind counter woman revives him after he faints, moving him to conclude, "There are some people in this world who don't need courses in Social Relations to enable a firm, shrewd grasp of various social and psychological...