Word: topically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brien's off-the-record meeting with students and faculty members will each center on one topic, unlike sessions with previous Honorary Associates, according to Miss Doris H. Kearns, coordinator of O'Brien's visit and a teaching fellow in Government. Students and staff members of the Institute felt that earlier sessions lacked focus and were repetitious...
...rather than analytical preoccupation with numbers": I had just demonstrated to my seminar on traditional Chinese science at M.I.T. how an interpolation technique developed in the 1st century B.C. had been applied to the solution of equations like 2x³ -85x² -85x -87 = 0. Our next topic is the calculation of eclipses a century later. Please note that the first five volumes (five more are coming) of Joseph Needham's monumental Science and Civilisation in China contain 404 pages of bibliography...
...attraction, as unsettling a set of drawings as any museum has shown in years. The 30 drawings were the handiwork of Iowa's mordant Mauricio Lasansky, 52, Argentine emigré printmaker and head of one of the nation's best-known graphics workshops in Iowa City. His topic: the excesses of bestiality displayed in German extermination camps of World War II. The impact of the drawings is so devastating that the Chicago Institute of Art declined to show them altogether, although they have been seen at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and will travel next...
...clear that drugs are more accessible now in the Yard than they used to be. Marihuana has even be- come, a popular topic for dining room prattle. Things are out in the open, and the nature of drugs makes them nearly epidemic. There is a language that drug people speak. People don't want to be left out, especially freshmen, who are having a difficult time simply getting adjusted to Harvard...
...image of simple goodness is something he sincerely believes and upholds. He often prays and fasts before making important decisions--like whether to run for office. A devout Mormon, he abstains from alcohol, tobacco, and coffee. Although Romney frequently attacks America's "moral decline" while campaigning, he avoided this topic at Harvard except to comment, in typical evangelistic vagueness, "The principal deficiencies in this country in the future are going to develop in the field of personal responsibility, family responsibility, and private institutional responsibility...