Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only about who gets or doesn't get the coveted sets of initials, but about who gets to choose and why. One of the most outspoken critics is Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, who accuses the Corporation of "false advertising." He says the Corporation promotes the erroneous notion that the degrees come from Harvard as a whole...
...named All-League three times and second team All-State once, so when she burst onto the college scene at the Business School Field, hometown fans have some notion of what was in store...
Klitgaard uses as a baseline the economist's notion that universities should select students to maximize the value added of the education an institution provides. Crudely put, universities want to select those students who, with the help of the education they offer, have the greatest potential for later-life contributions to society. There are, to be sure, a host of problems with this view--not least of all that it takes society's established reward structure as a given, Klitgaard says--but nevertheless it provides the basis for drawing up an admissions policy...
...Journalist David Owen's recent devastating attack on the validity of the SAT, for example, shows that contrary to popular assumptions, students can be coached to do better on standardized tests--perhaps even to the tune of 100 points. Not withstanding the considerable doubt such findings cast on the notion of the SAT as objective measure of "aptitude," it is clear that the benefits of coaching are only available to a select few who can afford...
...ferment was the notion that an artist need not be confined to a single area of specialization. Instead, eclecticism ruled. Glass's early minimalist pieces relied heavily on unvarnished scale passages, enraging some listeners who thought his music sounded more like etudes than formal compositions. Anderson tried her hand at sculpture before evolving her distinctive combination of music, narrative, films and slides. In The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin, which received its U.S. premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1973, Wilson welded elements of painting, set design, music, ballet and pantomime into a single twelve-hour work...