Word: originating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard is more mature. Today's students form associations based on mutual interests, not mutual friends. Even in a decade known for its student apathy, their projects last beyond the next day's hangover. Sex, religion, social class and ethnic origin may influence their membership, but rarely if ever do they cause anyone's exclusion...
...book's unifying idea, "information" is deeply ambiguous, which is one of its attractions for rigorous thinkers who like to venture into uncharted but fertile territory. Science has become fascinated in recent years with the origin and maintenance of order, whether physical, biological or social. Information is regularly used as the measure of this order, as it constantly struggles against the randomness, or entropy, threatening to tear it apart...
...confused as to the origin of the 1988-1989 financial plan that these figures supposedly came from. According to the Dean's office later in the article, the records on the orchestra "do not provide [this] relevant information." Where did these figures come from? In fact, after conferring with the present conductor, Alan Gilbert '89, as well as other key members of the group, we arrived at a more realistic estimate of the orchestra's revenues for the season...
...state passed a law guaranteeing that "students, otherwise qualified, be admitted to educational institutions without regard to race, color, religion, creed or national origin," adding universities and secondary schools--including Harvard--to MCAD's domain...
...little caution should be maintained. For one thing, the author essentially blames this book on a period of physical distress and mental depression that he experienced during the spring of 1987: "In order to recover what I had lost, I had to go back to the moment of origin." To an inveterate novelist, apparently, telling the truth is a manifestation of disorienting illness. More troubling, there is that letter to Zuckerman at the beginning and, at the end of this presumptive exercise in candor, the imaginary Zuckerman's lengthy and negative critique of what he has just read. The facts...