Word: realms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wilson Committee Report (1969) expressed for the first time an interest in expanding Harvard's realm of "responsibility" to include the outside community. Harvard's negligence toward Cambridge was an issue during the 1969 occupation of University Hall; and the Riverside neighborhood (around Mather House) has been a vocal opponent of Harvard's ivory tower policies. The concept of "institutional integrity" -of the University as self-containing and autonomous-has been rejected by all but the most elitist members of the community. Morality has been imposed on the University...
...gingerly moves toward liberalization undertaken by Franco's technocrats. Though the verdict was meant to embarrass Franco, he put it to masterful use. Acting swiftly-by tradition, death sentences are executed within twelve hours-Franco first summoned his Cabinet and then the prestigious Council of the Realm. Soon a short announcement from the Pardo Palace told the nation that Franco "has seen fit to commute all the death sentences." The six would still get life, which under Spanish law means a maximum of 30 years for the three convicted of one capital crime, and 60 years for the three...
...with the cultivation of a broader understanding. A worthy objective. However, the emphasis in such general exposures to other worlds has been on the study of records of perception instead of any investigations of the worlds themselves. Consequently the student may never catch sight of the problems of the realm in question as he wanders more and less lost in the maze of great names, books and categories...
Contrary to his expectations, Gordon reported that he found the proceedings a letdown. He judged the East Room of the White House "majestic beyond the realm of good taste." He had anticipated being dazzled by the nearness to power, but when the President was introduced "I stared hard at him and was surprised at my indifference. He radiated no emotion, no character, and looked just the way I'd always imagined...
Jorge Luis Borges has spent a lifetime trying to run away-with stunning success. In part it is the fixed writer of public renown that he fears and flees. Each of his tales represents an escape to some unexplored realm of the imagination. In the most recent stories in The Aleph, he has made still another escape: from intellectual labyrinths to the raw, stark world of the pampas...