Word: sci
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...social clubs' influence has declined. And Riesman also noticed that he has received many papers in Soc Sci 136, his course on American character and social structure, from athletes trying to live "in the double world of the training table and its powerful antagonists...
Even with the admission of tapes, no one will ever master the entire vocabulary or thought processes of the Nixon Administration. But tantalizing glimpses are possible through the aperture of the Ervin hearings. By now, of course, the Nixonian cadre has turned a few phrases to bromides, notably the sci-fi sounds: "At that point in time," and, "In that time frame." Still, these clichés are excellent indicators of the Administration's unwritten laws of language: 1) never use a word when a sentence will do; 2) obscure, don't clarify; 3) Humpty Dumpty was right...
...didn't find doodley-squat!" An I now to deny this statement, along with my past, just because my Creator had other plans? No. I am free to choose my own course, and I've decided to rededicate myself to failure. I'm not going to continue writing sci-fi trash for porn magazines. Instead, I'll criticize the many other failures in the literary world...
Conveniently enough, there already existed a series of basic design courses taught as part of the undergraduate concentration of architectural sciences. The Arch Sci department occupied a small building by the Charles River. Since this concentration was to be phased out and gradually replaced by courses in Visual and Environmental Studies (VES), the obvious thing to do was to make its courses the core curriculum for the new Carpenter Center. And in fact, when Carpenter Center offered its first program in 1963, approximately half of its courses had been taken over from the old Arch Sci department...
...effect the faculty of the Arch Sci department was transferred to the new Center, too. This was fortunate in light of budgetary considerations: since some of the staff teaching down by the river already had tenure through other departments, Carpenter Center would only have to support them on a half-time basis...