Word: sci
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taught Nat Sci 110 until this year, was convinced that Harvard students should have access to a privately owned computer. Also First Data had indicated that it would not renew its contract with the University...
...that leaves the two kinds of student politics, meeting around the edges--when a Provisional runs for a University committee, when a University committee endorses a demonstration, or in concentrations and classes (Social Studies or Soc Sci 2, "Western Thought and Institutions") that breed a lot of political types...
...textbook section of the Coop is even better than consuming a madeleine, for while Proust had only his past to reflect on, selecting courses is most decidedly oriented to the future. This simple arrangement of bookshelves tagged by little slips of paper announcing texts for Chem 10 or Soc Sci 120 or Phil 8 is, in a way, an arena of the imagination, a ball field of the mind on which are played out personal fantasies of your future self. The aisles separating the shelves are sinuous paths in a confusing maze of options, of alternatives leading to different life...
...further convolutions of the spiral. The people around you seem diminished in stature, their skin pale, their gaze distant. You stop a moment to watch as these college students eddy around you like so many ants in a hill. You are standing in front of the cabinet for Soc Sci 15 and casually pick up a text on behavioral psychology. Graphs of response rates and reinforcements and contingencies stare out at you, but your puzzlement is allayed by the almost tangible presence of laboratory walls enveloping you. A symphonic blend of pigeon cooing fills your ears as you walk...
...illustrated cover. "See the werewolf turn into a real flesh-and-blood woman-right before your very eyes." This pitchman's approach, aimed at newsstand buyers of books on the occult, is misleading, for the product, a slim volume entitled The Circus of Dr. Lao, is no tawdry sci-fi thriller. It is instead a blending of the sardonic style of Ambrose Bierce and the homespun hyperbole of Mark Twain...