Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another level, Erwitt's work often depicts connections, some obvious and others apparent only on close inspection. A photograph in Kyoto, Japan in 1977, for example, illustrates a parallelism between people and animals. It depicts a woman scratching her back as a dog does the same. In a 1975 photograph taken at Daytona Beach, Florida, the connection is not so obvious. Erwitt juxtaposes shapes to create compositions that are not readily apparent as real objects. However, detailed study of the photograph reveals a subtle relationship between the shape of apartment facades and a bird perched upon a street lamp...
When Spence set up the MacFarquhar Committee, he suggested that the Committee on Resources and the Academic Policy Committee were necessary because the high level of turnover prevents the Faculty Council from developing expertise in specific areas...
...this same consumerist/hedonist world of Black fraternities-their rather ordinary level of bourgeois selfdefinition--that causes me to cast a wary eye on them today, and which ought to cause Harvard Black students to do likewise. Although some Black Greeks have adult branches involved in voter registration and in community uplift activity such as Big-Brother and Big-Sister mentoring, they are mainly still instruments of a consumerist/hedonist bourgeois world view...
...think [the layoff] is going to have a positive effect," Joslin said. "The energy level is going to be so high. People have been serious about running and keeping fit. Everyone is so geared...
...recent twist in the argument over whether Harvard offers its junior professors a fair chance is the charge that the University requires time-consuming administrative work that detracts from a young scholar's time to conduct research and write--the traditional criteria for senior-level posts...