Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ballots for the board were sent out, Chairman of the Board of Overseers Joan T. Bok enclosed a letter pointing out that this year three candidates have actively campaigned on the divestment issue. She gives her opinion that the board works best when its members do not press a particular policy and implies that the divestment candidates are not open-minded. Finally, she warns that if these candidates are elected, the overseers "will be a very different board than it has been heretofore...
...unusual for undergraduates to be concerned with the elections for the Board of Overseers. The particular circumstances surrounding this year's elections, however, compel all conscientious members of the Harvard community to take an interest...
...quality that is prized at TIME, where the pressures of deadlines and breaking news occasionally push writers, editors and correspondents into varied and unaccustomed roles. Correspondents sometimes write firsthand reports for the magazine, while writers and editors have been known to report from the field on matters of their particular expertise or interest...
...life-size and carved in painted wood) does not match the intensity of his drawing or painting, perhaps because in bronze the pictorial illusions are too literal and their mystery drains away. Too often his work seems like a nostalgic recapitulation of Italian quattrocento sculpture, Desiderio da Settignano in particular. But of his power over the flat surface, there is no doubt. What we see there, in midcareer and at the height of his powers, is the greatest realist artist alive...
...Since there seems to have been coercion in this particular incident last Tuesday, students may feel that the section leader involved has not demonstrated the academic judgment necessary for an impartial reading of their exams. If any student in that section wishes, the head of sections and I will read his or her exam and assign the final grade ourselves. Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs