Word: remarkable
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...ceremonies announces at the outset of its all new show Saltimbanco, "because of the extreme danger it represents to the people of our world." Our world? To anyone unfamiliar with the previous spectacles of this Montreal-based big top -- Le Cirque Reinvente and Nouvelle Experience -- the emcee's remark will seem twee and pretentious. But he's not kidding. Their world is beautiful, seductive, utterly otherly...
...whole, Harvard performed admirably in relation to its Ivy League competition, losing only to tournament-winner Dartmouth and Brown (with Princeton not present). Body himself expressed bewilderment at the high scores posted by the home team. None of the nine Yalies playing broke 80, prompting Body to remark, "If I ever failed to break 76 on my home course, I'd want to kill myself. But look at [Yale]. God, that's awful...
...staff, in concentrating on the question of free speech, side-steps the major issue here, that of accountability. Whatever the merits or demerits of Mansfield's remark, his lack of any substantiation for it is unjustifiable...
That brings me to my second point. In drawing attention to the particular remark about grade inflation at the College, you have raised an important question concerning the kinds of issues for which an institutional response from an office of the University is helpful and proper. In a university such as ours, the members of the community have broad latitude to express themselves openly and candidly, even though such freedom may sometimes result in the expression of views that are perceived by many of us as insensitive or even hurtful. When a disputable or controversial assertion is made...
Heisenberg, who headed the Max Planck Institute after the war and remained active until his death in 1976, may have given his own answer on the day he learned of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. In a remark picked up by a hidden British microphone, he said he and his team had not had the "moral courage" to ask for the thousands of workers and huge resources that would have been necessary. The price of failure would have been high for all of them...