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...Library: Surely Harvard's own Bok, president through nearly a decade of political turmoil, deserves title to his pet project. Aren't there precedents--Eliot House, Lowell House and Pusey Library? Objection: The Bok-Kennedy-Engelhard link provokes images of "blood besotted" dollars. It is best to steer clear of such...
Guinier added University personnel are discouraging students from majoring in Afro-American Studies. "I get reports where freshman advisors tried to steer students away from majoring in Afro-American Studies or even taking courses" in the department, he said...
...Juan in Hell" sequence, a kind of afterworld dream in which the playwright argues that the Life Force has developed consciousness, and is using man in order to discern purpose and destiny in brute existence: "To be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer." Retorts the Devil: "On the rocks, most likely...
...pagan celebrations, which had gone on for millenniums, continued for centuries after the birth of Christ. It was to steer the energies of the celebrants into more pious channels-so says Francis X. Weiser, S.J., in The Christmas Book that the church in the 4th century picked, as Christmas Day, exactly the date that signaled the end of the Roman Saturnalia. The origin of the celebrations at least raises the question of which came first, seasonal malaise or the celebrations? Could it be that the rituals cure far more gloom than they precipitate? Surely such issues should not be abdicated...
Morrison, a sen-described "radical Copernican," said earthlings possess an unfounded conception of themselves as a special "galactic club." "The millions of stars in the great sky have little more consequence in our daily life than to steer an occasional migrating bird," Morrison said, nothing that the sun has all-important impact and significance in our lives...