Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SPITTING IMAGE. Some plays sound distinctly unappetizing in conception but prove surprisingly palatable in realization. For anyone who can abide the idea, this work about two homosexuals who have a baby provides a consistently amusing evening, nursing its basic joke with taste and felicity. Sam Waterston and Walter McGinn turn in accomplished performances as Daddy One and Daddy Two in what is probably the first homosexual play with a happy ending...
...Monday's events, that in an unstructured group of this size (200+) only the loud, quick-reaction people are able to interpose their views. A quick reaction is of necessity a shallow, one-dimensional reaction. Furthermore, once interruption is admitted and allowed, no speaker is about to develop an idea (support it solidly and investigate its implications), but instead must compress his thought into slogan. Thus depth is sacrificed by the Collins system, and investigating a question in depth is the essence of academic inquiry. A lecturer, confident that he can develop a subject for a considerable length of time...
Alex A. Inkeles, professor of Sociology, first presented the proposal to the Soc Rel Committee on Undergraduate Instruction (CUI) on Saturday. The idea of setting down general guide lines was considered as one of three approaches the CUI could take in working out a final motion for the regular faculty meeting next Tuesday, Franklin Sampson, CUI chairman and lecturer in Social Relations, said yesterday...
When Pollack arrived at the Med School and became an associate dean for Medical Care Planning, the idea of a community health program had already run through the Harvard discussion mill several times. As early as 1961, a committee working on plans for the new Affiliated Hospitals Center recommended that the Center incorporate some kind of new continuous-care pre-payment program as part of its responsibility to the community...
...idea quietly gestated for several years. Then in 1965, Dr. Robert Ebert became the new dean of the Medical School. Dr. Ebert had earlier left Western Reserve to become Jackson Professor of Medicine at Harvard. The Jackson chair is one of the most prestigious in the world of medical academics, but there has been constant speculation that the prestige was not all that drew Ebert to Harvard...