Word: processing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Spring has sprung; the rites are upon us. The annual process of Making Sure the Lawn Looks Perfect for Commencement-- a process which, for many of us, is dialectically invested with both anticipation and dread--is once again underway. The squadron of landscape-artists has been unleashed; like Stravinsky, they aspire to create a magnum opus of the season's rituals. With ardor, with bags of dirt, they have already begun to transform the Yard from a relatively pleasant, serene meadow into a confusion of cordons, chemical grass simulacra and bare patches of earth hideous to behold. Harvard subsists...
...sheer willpower and a certain degree of obsession which brought climbers to the mountain. For many now, though, the goal is not the experience but the outcome--to be able to say, "I stood at the top of Everest." The danger remains, however. It's true that the process has been streamlined and improved, but the climb remains a kind of fatal tourist attraction without the purity of Mallory's attitude...
...have returned victorious, but to climb and so conquer the mountain step by step. The pleasure and the motivation was in the action, not in the outcome--or expected outcome. Perhaps that is what John Mallory meant by requesting that the body remain undisturbed--his father died in the process of taking the challenge he had chosen. Whether he had completed it or failed in the attempt is not as important as his having tried...
...Nieman program is available to any mid-career journalist who works full-time and has at least three years of experience. The application process includes a brief biography, a study proposal and a portfolio of recent work...
...need some oversight to get the process right. We need students and faculty to participate," protesters sang in the song, to the tune of "Fugue for Tin Horns," with lyrics by Elizabeth C. Vladeck '99 and Jascha S. Hoffman...