Word: processing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...special concentrator in Political Psychology, said he chose to apply for a special concentration because it was a field that interested him, and because there was no room for the field within the Psychology and Government Departments. Pucillo calls applying for a special concentration "a pretty rigorous process," adding, "They make sure that your concentration cannot fit into a department" that already exists. "If it's a valid concentration and people have a desire to pursue an academic interest that the school doesn't have, it's a great alternative," Pucillo said...
...spring at Harvard will have ended. For some students, this week's decision will be a source of satisfaction throughout their undergraduate careers; for many students it will only continue the agonizing over a choice of fields of concentration that began months ago. And next spring, the entire process will begin anew...
Organizing a Harvard-Radcliffe student union would be a much tougher job than writing a document to establish a junior Congress, but if we really want to end our helpless acquiescence to Harvard's policies, the process starts in our own departments and in our own Houses...
Perhaps we should credit Woody Allen with popularizing these neo-Freudian ideas about wit. Allen manifestly began tracing a path through his jokes into his unconscious, often parodying Freudian symbolism but in the process probing among the tickles for that raw spot which when touched would twitch with pain. Sometimes wit--which most people think of as an aid in relieving anxiety--becomes the enemy: a steadfast shield that keeps our insides moist and pink, halting our emotional development and hindering our ability to be intimate with other people. So much...
Slade's protagonist is Scottie Templeton (Jack Lemmon '47), a divorced, once-promising writer who has squandered his talents on second-rate movies and television--and has had a damn good time in the process. Only his priggish 20-year-old son Jud seems to despise him; they haven't seen each other for two years when Jud comes to visit. Scottie wants them to spend time together, but Jud counters each of his father's jokes and suggestions with icy, detached monosyllables, preferring to journey off to a museum exhibit alone. Scottie's doctor arrives and breaks the news...