Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...area is the Plaza Hotel, a favorite spot for socialites who like to linger in hotel lobbies. If you are in the mood for elegant and excellent dining, just hop downstairs to Trader Vic's, New York's premier Polynesian restaurant, located in the Plaza's lower level...
Turow's nostalgia for the legal philosophizing that goes on in 1L may reveal something about his approach to law in general. Arguments over conflicting ideals proceed on a highly intellectual level, one that Turow clearly finds stimulating. There seems to be something of this abstracted viewpoint in the way Turow discusses his future with the U.S. attorney's office as well...
Both the dance classes and the company are funded directly through the Office for the Arts. The office does not receive its money from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, but from roughly equal allotments given by the presidents of Harvard and Radcliffe. "Although the level of funding has remained the same for the last several years," Mayman remarked last week, "we plan to initiate a program to endow the arts as part of the Radcliffe Centennial next year...
...first of these changes was the gradual diversification of the student body which raised the intellectual level of the entering classes while adding greater variety of experience, outlook, and talent. The second major change was the introduction of the House system, which improved the quality of life for many students and enabled them to take full advantage of an undergraduate body of such diverse backgrounds and interests. The third and final change was the slow transformation in the manner of teaching College courses so as to emphasize the analysis of complex problems from different points of view instead of simply...
...ideal involved in all of this, an ideal many of the convention members seem to take seriously. The ideal is a community in which individuals don't isolate themselves from others and refuse to accept imperfect goings-on around them. Only by working closely with others on a communal level to solve the little problems can we ever hope one day to be able to solve the more profound problems that we find in our society. Harvard teaches us not to ask questions--don't ask why you can't have hot breakfasts or exams before mid-year vacations...