Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Profilee Vendler hits home most clearly in her quotation, "When I first came here, the only woman teaching me was a visiting professor. Now, we have over 50 senior faculty, a good maternity-leave policy, and tenure-track delay for childbearing. We're moving in the right direction." The idea of movement is crucial to the reason I believe this Celebration was both necessary and successful. Universities, often to our great dismay, do not move in leaps and bounds. They move in small increments, some of which are slightly bigger than others. By devoting a day (and a great deal...
...idea that you have to look back in history to decide what to do about issues today [is] Neanderthar...because medical science has progressed far enough," Fieger said about the Constitutional basis of the Court's decision...
Other students worry that the lack of paper puts Harvard at a disadvantage in comparison to other schools. The increased work that companies will have to perform to access students files and download them may hurt some students performances in this recruiting season. "I think its a bad idea," said Grace Holihan, recruiting coordinator for LEK/Alcar, a consulting firm. Harvard should have implemented the system more gradually to correct for any problems the online system might create...
...trip climbing Mount Kilimanjaro gave some idea of why many say she sets an impossible standard for regular women. Finding the food at Horombo Hut at 12,500 ft. "inedible," she commandeered the porters and put together vegetable soup, chicken risotto and tomato salad using her Swiss Army knife. "She drives me insane," says Katherine Stuart, 33, of Los Angeles. "Part of me loves her. I mean, my God, she picks her own eggs, makes her own paint and makes everything so pretty. I had a subscription for two months, but she made me feel so deficient, so I canceled...
Pygmalion is on one level a lightly speculative exercise on social mobility and the potential of human education-the idea that even a flower girl can be transformed into a lady by learning to speak and dress like one. And on this level, the play is a joy to watch, grounding the fairy tale quality of the story with gloriously Shavian wit. But as a drama of human relations, it's much more frustrating and far less palatable than many of the playwright's other works (the fourth act, when done with enough punch, is one of the most brutally...