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...when he is locked out, write recommendations for him, advise him about his career (including helping him with his resume, inviting professionals to give him advice about interviewing, and finding professionals in the fields in which he is interested to come to the house and answer his questions), and perform countless other tasks for him and everyone else in his entry, for less than the value of a two-room suite in an undergraduate dormitory and 21 meals a week in the dining hall. But the real problem with his assertion is that it would be impossible for anyone...
...absurd conceits like the crude alienation technique of arguing over whose line is whose, or bringing the musicians onto the stage to perform with the actors mid-scene better indicate the general standard of direction...
...better off dropping the lecture format. No doubt, at least half of my classes easily could adapt to a strictly tutorial system. For students who might miss the "live" thrill of being there in Harvard Hall or at Sanders, perhaps we could hire a few professional lecturers to perform their "art" on different topics all day. It would at least make for a better division of labor. Under this system, professors might have extra time to teach sections--and actually see their students up close...
...William Westmoreland sued CBS after a "60 Minutes" piece charged that he had deliberately concealed the extreme improbability of a U.S. victory in Vietnam, Dan Rather defended his network with the classic maxim. "If it looks like a duck, and it walks like a duck. "You can't practically perform the genetic testing necessary to confirm that a duck is a duck. You've got to go on what you observe...
...event for Harvard audiences as for Harvard artists. And we certainly don't want to have the artists begging for crowds. It should be an event where everybody at Harvard stops a moment and contemplates the incredible creative energy of this place. We're not asking everybody to perform; We want at least half of them to come and watch (laughs...