Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Philip N Klein '84, $1500 for his paper entitled "Stacktracking: Parallel Acceptance of Deterministic Context Free Languages" Associate Professor John H. Reif...
...Calkins's experiences at Harvard and in Cleveland seem to parallel each other; voters lopsidedly removed him from the school board after one term, Harvard replaced Pusey with President Bok, and the Corporation gained new faces who seemed to reflect a new latent desire, both at Harvard and around the country for less visible, dynamic...
...that our class was in a bridge era During our four years the all-Radcliffe activities which had given may women meaningful leadership roles had dried up as the active people started to break into the parallel Harvard groups (if I had come five years earlier I would have probably been happy to write for the Radcliffe News). From the faculty's point of view we were an able, but sometimes inconvenient afterthought. As woman students we had not been able to improve things for ourselves because we lacked leadership against the immense Harvard bureaucracy. Any triumphs we had achieved...
Late in the book a parallel is developed between Carll and Jessie's father, an oldtime Communist who once left his family for two years on party orders and who now spends his time grumbling about his wife's bourgeois taste in furniture. The coincidence of husband and father immobilized by idealism gone stale is interesting. But in the end it hurts a novel in which there is no adult male with substance enough to cast a shadow. This is true even for minor characters; an interracial couple friendly to Jessie and Carll consists of a black wife...
...Robert Yager, past president of the National Science Teachers Association, 90% of all science teachers use a textbook 90% of the time. Florida Governor Robert Graham, a leader in school reform, has observed, "States have upgraded requirements for graduation, raised teachers' salaries and enacted a variety of reforms. Parallel with these reforms must be a serious uplifting of the quality of textbooks." Most publishers maintain that big buyers, like Texas, do not influence their books. But analysts have noted that texts have been made less rigorous because teachers and students demanded easier books...