Word: majority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Edwin H. Land '30, founder of the Polaroid Corporation and a major contributor to Harvard's funds for education in the sciences, Wednesday said he plans to establish a "center for scientific endeavor" in Cambridge...
Those, at least, are the results of a Student Assembly referendum, the first wide-ranging survey of student opinions conducted in recent years and the body's first major project. More than 3780 undergraduates--almost 60 per cent of the student body--took part in the survey...
...that he and Morrison would ramble that beach, full of angelheaded hipsters and motorcycles, exchanging organic mescaline for acid; weeping, laughing and drawing strange art in the sand with sticks. They wrote some songs together, and Morrison experimented with the poetry he started writing when he was a film major at UCLA. He read a lot of Whitman, Rimbaud, Sartre, Camus...
Many of the ENO singers have gone on to careers in the world's major opera houses, but this recording shows them in a very bad light. Rita Hunter's light-voiced Brunnhilde and Alberto Remedios' Siegfried are effective in the more lyrical passages, but neither really withstands the strain of these most taxing of roles. Hunter turns shrill and Remedios' diction decays. Much of the supporting cast has the same trouble, or others...
...this intellectual dilly-dallying left the actual story line in woeful shape. Particularly in Gotterdammerung, there are major inconsistencies--most spectacularly, it seems the gods who expire in a blaze of flame and music at the very end need not perish at all, since the ring which had doomed them is back in the hands of its rightful owners...