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...History are urged to take at least one of [the introductory] courses." That's funny--three of the five listed this year are bracketed. And the same thing happened two years ago. Should Fields of Concentration be changed to read that every other freshmen class should take an intro course...
Shalit added that the show will include segments of yesterday's Class Day ceremonies as well as an "amusing intro" look at Harvard's past, including material on the college days of past U.S. presidents Franklin '04 and Theodore Roosevelt (Class of 1880). The senior English Address, which Marius described as "very serious," will be given by Jon Kenton '83. The University will also award the following degrees...
Crimson: There are over 100 different nationalities which exist in the Soviet Union today. Despite efforts by Russia's leader to squelch this ethnicity, these national groups continue to be viable forces and are increasingly becoming the cause of intro-Soviet instability. Do you see Andropov adopting any significantly new plan to deal with these various nationalities...
Television has developed an elaborate jargon that has possibilities as slang. Voiceover, segue, intro and out of sync have been part of the more general language for a long time. Now there is the out-tro, the stand-up spiel at the end of a news reporter's segment. A vividly cynical new item of TV news jargon is bang-bang, meaning the kind of film coverage that TV reporters must have in order to get their reports from El Salvador or the Middle East onto the evening news...
Contrats also pervade the music, Calm, harmonious tunes are followed by screaming, distorted ones. Melodic, lush guitar textures give way to feedback and a multitude of strange noises. The title track, for example, begins with a chaotic intro of power chords and drum rolls; then feed-backing guitars enter producing a sound akin to the horn of a steamship...