Word: synthesiser
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Students in Biology 2 this spring will have an opportunity to hear the Nobel-winning scientist lecture in person on DNA, for Watson is a regular member of the teaching staff of that course. In addition to his pedagogical activities, Watson is still deeply involved in research, primarily on the...
The show, in sum, is to be highly recommended, at least as an example of one man's synthesis of traditional and modern art, at most as a collection containing a number of very beautiful paintings.
The one real success of the film, and here Resnais deserves full credit, is the ease and brilliance with which it shuffles the past, present and future in exploring a single situation. This type of synthesis, Resnais shows, is a specific virtue of the cinema.
Murray, who will go on researching despite retirement, once proposed a vast "new testament" synthesizing Eastern and Western wisdom. Yale's famed Philosopher F.S.C. Northrop, 68, argued similar ideas in his monumental The Meeting of East and West (1946), the work of a man equally at home in law...
Practical considerations are not an adequate defense of the lecture system, of course, for there might well be better methods of handling large numbers. Some have even gone so far as to suggest that professors would do everyone concerned a favor if they simply passed out mimeographed copies of their...