Word: modern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...greatest paradox of academic work in modern America is that most professors teach most of the time, and large proportions of them teach all the time, but teaching is not the activity most rewarded by the academic profession nor most valued by the system at large," the report states. "Trustees and administrators in one sector after another praise teaching and reward research...
...MERCHANT of Venice is often a disturbing play for modern audiences, partly because of the overtones of morbidity and homosexuality in the friendship of Antonio and Bassanio, and partly because of the characters' anti-Semitism toward Shylock. The Currier House Drama Society production of Merchant tries to lessen audience anxiety by addressing these issues in novel ways and by taking advantage of opportunities for humor in what is, after all, supposed to be a comedy...
...production's informality makes the play diminishes tension even further. The play is staged in the round, on a scenery-free platform whose only feature is a large cube in the center. The costumes are modern and semi-casual (jackets and ties for the men, dresses for most of the women); the actors look like Harvard students at a master...
...some scholars have argued that because Harvard has been one of the major recipients of the government's manuscripts, it has a duty to promote modern Indian Studies...
What is creepy about reading the Index is the sense it conveys that modern society is crumbling. How else can you make sense of recurring statistics concerning how our lives are being contaminated, from the increase in the percentage of U.S. women between the ages of 20 and 24 in who are infertile today (11) as opposed to 1965 (4); the doubling of the number of recognized mental disorders between 1952 and 1987; and the pounds of chemical additives an average American eats in a year...