Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nihilism of that sort creates the perfect Catch-22 situation. Exactly how does one go about proving--proofs being rooted in the acceptance of causality--that causality does not exist? Needless to say, Toffler did not pursue that interesting philosophical question too far. After all, he had only an hour to speak. It is difficult to dismantle the foundations of knowledge and still have time to warn your audience of the third great revolution that is sweeping the world...
...sociologist, he is a social theorist, if you will. By this nothing more is meant than simply that Toffler works economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, a meager portion of history, and whatever else there is into his all-encompassing scheme of the modern world. For instance, one part of his hour-long speech last week was devoted to explaining changes in family structure through the different historical epochs. Toffler explained that the family has traditionally been a large, stable economic unit. But now in technological society a family unit must, above all, be highly mobile, and this has resulted...
Unfortunately, those energetic numbers are sandwiched around some slower songs that do not work nearly so well. Originally written to change the pace of exciting two-hour musicals, they are not sung penetratingly enough or performed interestingly enough to excite melancholy or empathy in the opening act of a short musical revue in the Dunster dining hall...
...then Crimson-killer Kevin Bower took charge, picking off the eleventh-hour pass to secure the Falcon win. Bower nearly buried Harvard's hopes with 18 second-half points, despite the hounding efforts of the Crimson's man-to-man defense...
...campus residency causes her no special problems. "I tend to sleep through more classes, but that's a matter of self-discipline. You think you'd spend a lot of time cooking and cleaning up afterwards, but I found I'd spend a hour and a half in the dining hall anyway." Like most students who move off campus, Duffin associates with the same people she did while living on campus. She says less frequent mealtime contact makes little difference in the quality of her friendships. "When I would sit with people at meals it was usually in a large...