Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concept of grownups playing with puzzles may seem inane, but not to a small group of professors and students from the Boston area. Recently, a couple of collectors joined the enclave in Dudley's Lehman Hall for the first annual "Puzzle Party," where they munched cookies and lemonade while playing mind games with one another. Literally...
Perhaps it is an occupational hazard: political scientists, even more than academics in other fields, seem to want to see their theories acted out in the real world. Machiavelli, offering unsolicited advice to Renaissance princes, may have been one of the first, but the path is wellworn--as the flow between Harvard's Government Department and Washington attests...
...Salerno-Casper escapade exploded last month when Casper accused Salerno of being a lesbian, an allegation which she denied. While his attack could have proven devastating, many seem to feel it actually gained Salerno support...
Feelings of suspicion and cynicism linger long after the many statistics are forgotten. Ironically, the editors seem to lament the lack of meaningful political debate in America, yet rely on mere numbers to make their points. Stalin once bragged that "one death is a tragedy, a million deaths a statistic." What does that make the 1159 statistics in the Harper's Index? The stuff of fun conversation, maybe, but also cause for alarm...
...with the memory of its first production, which won eight Tony Awards, but with Bob Fosse's 1972 film adaptation, which many critics rank as perhaps the best movie musical of all time. Hal Prince's fluid, expressionistic staging has been so widely imitated that even its slyest devices seem cliched. Although the show's political anthems and music- hall satires throb with emotion, its love ballads are mostly lame -- a weakness that has been heightened by Joe Masteroff's miscalculated rewrite of his own book. Clifford (Gregg Edelman), the American novelist who arrives in Berlin as the Nazis...