Word: pre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thirty years ago, when the CIA was founded, we were the pre-eminent military power in the world. We were a totally independent economic power, and many, if not most of the free nations of the world took their political cues from us. How different is the world today. We are one of several economic powers that are interdependent. We do not dominate the world political scene, as small nations and large are activist and independent. And we are much closer, of course, to military parity...
...company classes, rehearse a rep show and follow a serious academic program. It would be almost impossible to do any other extracurricular activity. It is likely that only people who are essentially disinterested in academics will be able to work with the repertory company at the Loeb. Only pre-professional dramaphiles will be able to rationalize the necessary time commitment. The Loeb will become, even more than now, a sanctuary for the intense aspiring star...
There are undoubtedly people who believe that improving the quality of Loeb theater is worth the de facto abandonment of the amateur principle. These people will argue that students who are not "serious" about theater, students who are not pre-professional, can always act, direct and do tech work on House shows. It is ironic that the majority of Harvard students should have to return to the situation that existed before the Loeb was built, doing shows in terribly limiting and uninspiring facilities. The Loeb was planned because there was an obvious need for a well-equipped undergraduate acting facility...
...realize that there will be many losers. The House drama societies and college-wide amateur companies such as the Gilbert and Sullivan Players will have difficulty using the Loeb technical facilities. More significantly, all those students who want to do theater but who reject the excesses of theatrical pre-professionalism may be frozen out of Loeb opportunities...
...LSAT score makes the difference with so many of our candidates to the top schools," a Harvard pre-law tutor said. "There's no doubt it's a numbers game--GPA (grade point average) and LSATs are the whole ballgame Everybody's got extracurriculars, and the 'diversity' schools mention in their catalogues are too often code words for minority applicants...