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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ability to comprehend, to conceptualize, to organize and reorganize, to manipulate, to adjust-these are all parts of thought. So are the acts of pondering, rationalizing, worrying, brooding, theorizing, contemplating, criticizing. One thinks when one imagines, hopes, loves, doubts, fantasizes, vacillates, regrets. To experience greed, pride, joy, spite, amusement, shame, suspicion, envy, grief-all these require thought; as do the decisions to take command, or umbrage; to feel loyalty or inhibitions; to ponder ethics, self-sacrifice, cowardice, ambition. So vast is the mind's business that even as one makes such a list, its inadequacy is self-evident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Mind in the Machine | 5/3/1982 | See Source »

Almost all those who aided in Coach Carole Kleinfelder's recent dismissal from the Harvard women's basketball team should consider hanging their heads in shame...

Author: By Andy Doctoroff, | Title: A Tragic Comedy of Errors | 4/29/1982 | See Source »

...circles like ours; though Graham drew respectable crowds, he stirred up relatively little fervor at still-Godless Harvard (where apathy has replaced atheism, non-belief being almost as taxing as faith). At the risk of sounding like a Good Book-thumping proselytizer, that pervasive lack of interest is a shame, especially for those who hope for the thoroughgoing change of this nation and this world into places where justice thrives. Graham's continuing transformation helps show why the Bible offers a chance, perhaps the best chance, for such a revolution...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Homage to Pilgrimage | 4/24/1982 | See Source »

...been interested in getting information from Professor Counter on his work with the Foundation and the challenges that group faces." Crimson President Paul M. Batten '83 said yesterday. "It's a shame that we've had so many problems chicaning his comments and opinions...

Author: By Steven R. Swartz, | Title: Crimson Charges Professor With Religious Discrimination | 4/20/1982 | See Source »

...fact, the constitution did pass quite strongly with 75 percent of the vote and a 58 percent turnout. It would be a shame if the decisiveness of that passage were obscured. Sidney Verba '53 Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Constitutional Referendum | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

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