Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Peters, professors who deal with large amounts of grant money are having particular trouble using ADAPT, although the program was designed with just such professors in mind. Were it to work as planned, the program would allow researchers to calculate instantly how much of their grant money has been spent...
Instead, we are forced to recognize the killers for who they were, depressed and unsatisfied kids furious at the world in general, not at their God-fearing classmates in particular...
...people" who are well-educated at expensive schools, very little of the book is about Harvard. Rather, Purdy's project is much broader. The jadedly independent ironist, he argues, resists the urge to "identify strongly with any project, relationship, or aspiration" but at the same time hungers for a particular wholeness. And this is wholeness is only available through a renewed commitment to civic and political life...
...type of irony I find most troublesome is not in the attitude exhibited by Harvard students towards particular political or social agendas. Rather, it is in the context that we seem to view our own world at Harvard. It is an ironic sentiment at the heart of our discontent with Harvard's academic and House life...
Yang, who although is not registered to vote, says he is an Independent because he does not want to be tied to any particular party...