Word: recently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard Mystique is largely derivative. Lopez lifts stuff from every popular magazine article he can get his hands on. From Esquire, he steals whole descriptive passages about the atmosphere of the Harvard Business School. From The Crimson he steals sensational stuff that no respectable author would steal. Lopez rehashes recent controversies that have plagued Harvard in recent years-- the fight over genetic determination and I.Q., the University's connection with the Central Intelligence Agency, the fight over the relocation of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library. It's all been said before-- and much better...
...most recent review of tutorials in 1969 by Ernest R. May, then acting associate dean of the Faculty, beat the same old bushes with a similar lack of success. May viewed the Faculty's negligence with not a little exasperation: "Since tutorial represents one-third to one-half of the departmental course work required of honors students and since most of the tutorial courses are managed exclusively by teaching fellows, we appear to be violating out principle on a grand scale...
Much of Baker's humor is the fife accompaniment to the Sousa march of his own sturdy good sense, as when he announced in a recent column his refusal to buy a car that cost more than the house he grew up in, $5,900. When Baker expresses pain, it tends to be with only the parody of a whimper, as in a 1977 column he titled "A Taxpayer's Prayer": "O mighty Internal Revenue, who turneth the labor of man to ashes, we thank thee for the multitude of thy forms which thou has set before...
While recuperating from an operation for prostate cancer, a middle-aged Chicago machinist learns that a loan company is inquiring among his neighbors whether he can ever work again. In Hartford, Conn., a recent college graduate hears that she has been rejected for a teaching job by a private school because it has somehow found out that her mother is under psychiatric care. In New York City, women who have registered for abortions at a private clinic are besieged by phone calls from right-to-life advocates trying to dissuade them...
Energy is only part of the problem. Another disturbing symptom is the state of American productivity, which after several years of declining growth has in recent months actually dipped below zero progress. America began to play its great role in the world not so much through military power as through its immense productive capacity. Productivity is not simply a matter of people willing to work hard, although that remains a major factor. It is also a matter of maintaining healthy machines and plants, capital investment and innovation. In most of these areas, America now lags behind many other nations...