Word: topical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Twice a week the group, which includes from 15 to 25 people on a given day, splits up and starts the nitty-gritty; three days the group will stay until about 10:30 discussing a specific topic, such as a company's stock to be bought or sold. Most of the staff, though, enjoys quieter days: researching, meeting with visiting representatives of companies, and occasionally visiting the trading pit to follow the progress of a buying or selling program. While everyone at HMC juggles several projects at once, Cabot says, "everything we do leads up to some kind of decision...
...public philosophy in our institutions. Where the last book was concerned with moral and political ideas, the new book tries to draw the connection of the theory and practice in contemporary America," the professor says. Sandel took a leave of absence this spring to do research on the topic...
...experience as a banjo player helped her when it came to researching bluegrass music. Little work had been done on the topic before, and Brown conducted a large series of field interviews with founders of the music form. "Some of them already knew who I was," she says. "They were pretty willing to open up. A lot of them feel like they haven't gotten the fame they deserve...
Bluegrass music is not the normal sort of thesis that the History and Literature Department accepts, and Brown says: "I'm still surprised they let me do it." Despite the oddity of the topic the thesis may have helped the Harvard community learn more about the bluegrass sound so rarely heard around Boston--even in the Square. "Nobody around Harvard knew much about it. There was really nobody who could help much, so I was pretty much on my own," she says...
...bluegrass music seemed like an unusual topic for the History and Literature Department, then haute couture seemed like an equally unlikely topic for the Fine Arts Department. But James H. Lubowitz says he "made the assumption that fashion has aesthetic value and can be considered art," and then proceeded to analyze the aesthetics of Christian Dior in the 1950s...