Word: paper
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Swidler credits Bellah with developing ideas "which have become part of the woodwork" of academia, such as the concept of civil religion, a term he coined in an influential 1966 paper, "Civil Religion in America...
...look at his grades as an undergraduate, they were probably pretty lousy because he spent all his time at The Crimson," recalls Stanley Karnow '45, an author and journalist who became a lifelong friend of Lewis' while serving on the paper...
...Lewis began writing a Times column called "At Home Abroad" while working as the paper's London bureau chief. Upon returning to the U.S., the column was retitled "Abroad at Home." He has written it continuously for more than 25 years...
George A. Plimpton '48 is an acclaimed writer and humorist, perhaps best-known for Paper Lion, a book describing his brief foray as a member of the Detroit Lions. He is also the editor of The Paris Review. While an undergraduate, he enjoyed mocking The Crimson as a member of a semi-secret Bow Street social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...
...tool of education. But more and more, computers are at the very heart of how schools teach and children learn. Other critics are worried about the changes they imagine the new technology may bring. Over the course of history, progress often spurs anxiety. When Greek merchants began importing Egyptian paper into Athens, Socrates condemned it, complaining that the use of paper would, according to writer Nicholas Allard, depersonalize interactions, disrupt human ties and "replace public discourse with less desirable and potentially dangerous private communication...