Word: key
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Autobiographies by writers tend to be awkward combinations of exquisite craft at storytelling and desiccated scarcity of incident. The writer's trade is by nature solitary, his customary posture bemused detachment, the key events in his inner life involved with the murky business of shaping a sensibility. In the American tradition, moreover, serious writers rarely enter politics or play more than a peripheral role in celebrity culture...
...poignant biographical play contains at least four layers of meaning. Taken together, they explain what intrigued Whitemore in the life of Alan Turing, an obscure if influential British mathematician. The most obvious reference is to Turing's cracking the Nazi Enigma code, credited by Winston Churchill as a key intelligence feat of World War II. Confronted with an enemy that could change its code in a trice, almost infinitely and randomly, via a complex encrypting machine, Turing outwitted the device by building a sort of early computer. A second allusion is to the code of moral orthodoxy, which Turing violated...
They have to. By 1995 about 40% of the U.S.'s 108,000 tenured faculty will reach retirement age. But replacement talent is not coming along. Despite the sweeteners for key players, a survey in 1986 indicated that only .3% of freshmen plan academic careers -- in which starting salaries still languish around...
...plainly, the Crimson played so well that it dominated the action on the ice. It snatched the key away from the Tigers and locked them out of Bright Center...
Recievers: Senior SE Brian Barringer (47 catches) is currently tied for the second-best single-season receiving output by a Harvard receiver. He will need 10 receptions to break Pat McInally's 1973 mark of 56. Tight-end Kent Lucas (17.6 reception average) has picked up the key yardage all year long while Neil Phillips (13.7) has made some impossible catches for Air Yohe's aerial strikes...