Word: restful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another sense, this riddle of a building, this glass and brick sphinx, thrusts one rude question at them all: In a world where the physical scientists promise to solve social problems and the social scientists promise to solve all the rest (including happiness), who really needs a liberal arts scholar? By their words, by this year of their lives, the first fellows of the National Humanities Center are working on an answer for the many people, not excluding themselves, to whom the absolute value of a liberal arts education has become a casualty of modern doubt second only to religion...
...heroic age," says Riesenberg with both premature nostalgia and the esprit of a pioneer who is also his own historian. Next year, or the year after, the center could deteriorate into a rest-and-recreation area for tired professors who can't make it to the next sabbatical-the stuff that satirical novels and Senator William Proxmire's "Golden Fleece" awards are made...
...freshmen, despite being second seeds, should be the favorites. Their only loss came last weekend at Yale, when they hit a lane buoy after leading at 1000 meters. They, like the J.V., rowed through the rest of the competition, winning by open water every time...
...Maritime provinces are locked into a vicious economic cycle, with unemployment as high as 20 per cent in some areas, and despite federal investment incentives, practically separatist government clamors for "sovereignty association," a euphemism for secession. If Quebec were to secede, the Maritimes would be cut off from the rest of Canada. A chain of seceding provinces is not unforeseeable, for while Quebec is an enigma, it is by no means an anomaly...
Despite the 8-1 score the rest of the Harvard squad played solid tennis. Dan Pompan stayed closer to nationally-ranked Jay Lapidus than the 6-2, 6-3 score indicates, dropping several 3-3 points, including a number of chances to break the Tiger star's serve...