Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Doug Fitch '82 says he was always amazed by the extent to which the Kielys would encourage his and other students' artistic pursuits, despite his somewhat bizarre projects and often disastrous results...
...think especially after Bosnia earlier in this decade we in the U.S. and in the rest of the world have become accustomed to seeing images like the ones were seeing from Kosovo right now. And in as sense we have become somewhat inured to those images so they no longer horrify us as they should," said Siddiqui, who is the treasurer of the Harvard Islamic Society and a Crimson editor...
...just what does Jennings' televised history lesson bring to the media's growing centennial curriculum? Press material for The Century implies that it aims to tell the world's story over the past 100 years. That is somewhat misleading. What the documentary does, in fact, is offer a smattering of global drama all in the context of a one-man show--sometimes staid, sometimes engaging--starring Uncle Sam, a character free-thinking, dysfunctional, glorified, triumphant...
...social context in which human beings can be said to "follow the rules" of a mathematical system. What Turing saw, and Wittgenstein did not, was the importance of the fact that a computer doesn't need to understand rules to follow them. Who "won"? Turing comes off as somewhat flatfooted and naive, but he left us the computer, while Wittgenstein left us...Wittgenstein...
Science fiction is a native 20th century art form that came of age at the same time as jazz. Like jazz, science fiction is very street-level, very American, rather sleazy, rather popular, with a long and somewhat recondite tradition. It's also impossible to avoid, no matter how hard...