Word: impetuses
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...issues. In this structure there is no provision for affecting policy-making in Harvard's smaller fiefdoms. Indeed, by the time grass-roots student activism filters up to the Assembly by way of elected representatives or referendums, is fussed over in that deliberative body, and passed back down, whatever impetus for change there was in the first place will, likely as not, have dissipated...
Harvard aspires to provide every undergraduate with a broad liberal arts education. This noble goal has been the driving force behind recent efforts to replace the unwieldly General Education system with a rigidly defined Core Curriculum. The impetus for the Core came from the realization that Gen Ed has failed to expose students to important areas of knowledge. Few would dispute the inadequacy of the Gen Ed system. The Core, however, is not the answer to our problems...
Spokesmen for the protest groups said their purpose was to educate the public about racism and oppression in America as well as in South Africa. David Huet-Vaughn, chairman of the Tennessee Coalition Against Apartheid, said demonstrations like the one this weekend will "provide the impetus for a future national movement to cut out international racism like a cancer...
...exemplified this split between supposed input and actual effect. The student caucus of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL), for example, last month recommended a proclamation of support for the cause behind and work done by the Constitutional Convention, a proclamation that could have been just the impetus needed to ensure the success of the Convention's efforts...
Particularly with regard to music, dance's age-old impetus, such an approach is startling: Cunningham's dance is set not "to" music, but "against" it. The two elements occupy the same time-period and physical space, but neither acts in response to the other. The musical background of a particular dance is not always the same, and even when it is, it functions merely as a "climate of performance," in Clive Barnes's words. As Cunningham has remarked, "the result is that the dance is free to act as it chooses, as is the music. The music doesn...