Word: latent
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...latent social turmoil of the 1960s was soon to erupt on college campuses across the nation—and Harvard was no exception. As the Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam war gathered momentum, Ford found himself at the helm of a faculty beset by social and political strife...
Since the establishment of the Office for International Studies last year, along with the streamlining of the application process and the efforts to develop more Harvard-accredited programs, more students have been electing to spend a semester or two at overseas institutions, indicating the latent demand for study abroad. By giving students more flexibility, the committee’s reduction in requirements is a further step in the right direction of making study abroad an attractive option, rather than a logistical nightmare...
...refreshing break from the usual means of slicing-and-dicing, without doing away with any of the high-adrenaline pyrotechnics of special effects-heavy films. For non-fans, it’s a thin attempt at intellectualized violence bearing all the pitfalls of the action genre: loose ends, latent misogyny, narrative predictability and “novelty” realized only through increased goriness. The Hunted aims for haute couture and ends up with stoned soup: all the familiar leftovers, beaten, bloody and bland. —Ashley Aull...
...country, or rather the White House, readies for a preemptive strike, what is the role of a university in a time of war? As citizens of a place in which art is studied and even created, now more than ever should we recognize the latent power of what we study rather than burrow in the safer insignificance of our ideas. The more we deny (or fail to appreciate) the political import of art, deconstructing its minutiae rather than debating its argument, the more, as Madeleine S. Elfenbein ’04 put it in a recent column, we augment...
...Transport 2000, an independent British organization promoting sustainable transport. City planners have long known that building new roads is not a good answer to traffic jams. Even if cities can find the space (and most European cities cannot), new road space usually only leads to new traffic, unleashing latent driving demand. The M25 motorway around London, the classic example, was built to allow for 30 years of traffic growth. It was jammed within six months. Traffic is like water: it oozes across all available surface. Damming the flow requires a brave - or suicidal - politician. For better or worse...