Word: topical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pursuing the topic of Ivy League bands, you can quickly identify another aspect of the average cadet's concern about today's game...
EDITORIAL BOARD: The Ed Board is looking for people who can write convincingly on any topic that interests some segment of the University community. Period. And that's a broad range of topics. Members of the Ed Board write many of the policies, brass tacks (in-depth discussions of some current problem), and reviews of books, movies, and plays that appear on page 2 of the Crimson. Students who can review the latest Godard extravaganzas will be accepted with open arms. The same goes for those who can unravel the myriad complexities of national politics and institutions. The former...
...master tends to assign his novels a topic. In The Mackerel Plaza it was the state of religion in the U.S. I Hear America Swinging concerned the manner and mores of the newly liberated male; Comfort Me With Apples chose the form of parody for a series of hilarious lectures on modern literature. Here, sexual harassment is the ordure of the day. Voluptuous, innocent Daisy Dobbin, an investigative reporter, is sent undercover into New York offices to collect evidence for her feminist editor Bobsy Diesel. But it is the leathery Bobsy who does the harassing, vigorously attempting to seduce Daisy...
Some admissions officials, such as Rosemary Green, assistant director of admissions, believe Klitgaard's preliminary study is essentially a moot topic. "It's not an issue at this point. We dealt with it as far as we're concerned, and it's not begin discussed now," Green says...
...incoming administration. At Harvard, the major difference from 1976 was that this time the Republican-leaning academics were the ones suddenly looking at new career opportunities. "Jobs, jobs, jobs and more jobs," President Reagan promised at a Labor Day speech last week. That was also a prime topic of discussion during the transition period--both in Washington and, in certain circles, Cambridge. When the dust settled, the Harvard line-up in the Reagan administration included...