Word: ideas
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Under Jewett's direction, the admissions office became the idea for emulation and envy by other college. Jewett ensured a generation of remarkable graduates of this College. Even after his advancement to Dean of the College, Jewett continued--and will continue in his retirement--to serve on the Admission Committee...
...third question deserves intense scrutiny, for it brings up the idea of prevention: there is no way Harvard can absolutely prevent anything like Tadesse's murder-suicide from occurring in the future--and it is impossible to say whether Harvard could have prevented the murder itself--but College administrators can make sure Harvard's existing institutions provide students with more support...
...modern-day organisms of known habits. Still, experience with rabbits in Australia and kudzu in the Southern U.S. shows that seemingly innocuous plants and animals can misbehave when taken out of their original environments. And while most experts believe that the danger posed by ancient microbes is small, the idea that they have traveled from a time so distant is still unsettling to many people...
...least the 10th time in 38 years, Jerome Robbins is returning to West Side Story. It was the great showman's most brilliant idea, resetting Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet among teenage street gangs in the 1950s. Slang may change and violence levels escalate, but the drama of the star-crossed city kids has never dated, nor has its appeal diminished. For the choreographer, now 76, the show has become a personal rite of renewal. Last week he renewed it once more, this time as a suite of dances for the New York City Ballet...
...ballet performers is not new. Robbins was approached by American Ballet Theatre some 20 years ago, but because he was ballet master at the rival City Ballet, he first went to its guru, George Balanchine, for his approval. "Fine," he said, "because our boys don't fight." The idea never came to fruition, but Balanchine's remark was telling. Ballet dancers are trained to do what they are told. Their acting is mostly pantomime. Here they faced something new. "Broadway dancers are expected to take risks," says Robert LaFosse, who stars in West Side Story Suite...