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Coddington cites as possible causes an increase in fear of radiation, the 1979 accident at the nuclear power plant at Three Mile Island, and conflicting testimony among scientists in public debates. Additionally, the synthesis of new, highly lethal chemicals and highly radioactive compounds has taught people the unrealistic nature of...
The idea of a residential college system--a synthesis of housing plans at Harvard and Yale--has been incubating in Princeton's administrative womb as far back as Woodrow Wilson's day, when the university's president envisioned a less elite alternative to the entirely selective "eating club" system. However...
THE WHOLE PURPOSE of Rockwell's book, it seems, is to link the different genres of music, classical and popular. That Rockwell would even attempt such a synthesis speaks much about the music being produced today. As Rockwell writes, the barriers between the different worlds of music are breaking down...
Since programming specialists often work together on broad "synthesis" projects, they may be discouraged from joining a group as small as Harvard's.
This thorough synthesis makes up for the most superficial treatments of some other plays later in the book. Tidbits from studies of Desire Under the Elms, Mourning Becomes Electra and The Iceman Cometh provide occasional flashes of insight, so do a few of the details from Berlin's otherwise sketchy...