Word: precisionism
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In taking this course, the student leaders will probably have to sacrifice a large measure of clarity and precision for breadth of support, as they did in writing their letters to the government and it is not clear exactly what mechanisms or institutions will be best suited to organizing this...
The Committee on Educational Policy has proposed changes in Harvard's rank list system which would sacrifice a reasonable attitude on grades for well-intentioned but meaningless precision.
Competition for graduate schools, fellowships, and summas sees to it that students spend too much time worrying about their grades. If the Faculty approves the CEP proposal, ostensibly in the interests of fairness and precision, it will add one more incentive for plus-grabbing when there are already far too...
There are in the U.S. remarkably few Machiavellians who believe that war is simply a matter of state, beyond questions of good or evil. At the other extreme, there are also relatively few all-out pacifists. Most critics concede that in certain conditions, war is morally justifiable-but assert that...
Slurs & Shakes. The history of bel canto and the reasons for its revival are chronicled in a lively new book by Musicologist Henry Pleasants, The Great Singers (Simon & Schuster; $7.50). The first prima donnas of bel canto were not donnas at all but male sopranos and contraltos. These castrati, who...