Word: segments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...literal sense. It would be an insipid life of everlasting borerom, as wits like Shaw have often pointed out. Indeed, it is the fact of death that gives value to life; only the certainty that the temporal series is finite imports any worth to a given point or segment. An immortal man would not be a man; like an unshakeably secure God, he would lack the tragic perspective of the mortal and the limited in which alone value appears. Water has no value to a fish in the ocean--but in a desert: ultimate and absolute. Thus the longing...
...next segment of the building was added in 1889 and extended the Museum to within sixty feet of the Geological Museum in Agassiz's complex of scientific collections. Yet Putnam was still pressed for space. In his report to the University in 1898, he complained, "The present halls and cases are overcrowded and many interesting collections have to be kept in drawers or stored in the basement awaiting the completion of the building." It was through his determined efforts that money was raised to build a third part to Peabody, to close the gap and join it with the rest...
...proud of it, over 11 per cent of its students now live off-campus as "commuters." Thirty years ago when the stock market crashed, the percentage was up over 40, but then Harkness gave Harvard its Houses, President Conant laid heavy stress on "national distribution," and the non-resident segment began shrinking to its present minimum...
...Dwell In A Palace of Strangers is obviously Kopit's most ambitious published work to date. The segment printed in The Advocate is more suggestive than satisfying--yet one must make allowances for First Acts because, in establishing characters and their relations to each other, a playwright must talk and explain. Hopefully, Kopit's audience will find in the unfinished play a meaning and point of view that his earlier work has lacked...
...rich" without hurting the poor. While the idea involved may be quite noble, the facts of the case do not jibe with the principle. To many New Yorkers, neither taxi rides nor restaurant meals are luxuries; and, as the cabdrivers have pointed out, the taxi tax penalizes one segment of the population for the benefit of another, no more deserving group...