Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have acquired a fixed form in classical art. There was no thousand-year lineage of marble prototypes for their shape. They could be big and indistinct. And the conjunction of monumental size with muffled form entranced Tucker. The resulting pieces look ineloquent, truncated, more available -- at first -- to touch than to sight...
...There are people on the council who are hesitant to touch an issue that's controversial, and if that means turning our heads and ignoring issues of discrimination, there are some who seem willing to avoid controversy," said Council Secretary Frank E. Lockwood '89, who sponsored the Fly Club legislation and a resolution about this year's support staff union drive. "I think there was some fence-straddling, trying to please everybody, and on some of these issues you're not going to please everyone," he said...
...reality does not meet this ideal in Wood's view. "Meeting with these people is like riding through the peasantry of Paris, going to Versailles and sitting down with a group of courtiers who are not in touch with the commoners," he said...
Wood stressed that a more open Board would not be contrary to the basic principles under which it was created. "There is no real reason to be so closed as to be really out of touch," he said. "There is nothing that precludes us from taking votes, nothing that says that the minutes of the meeting can't be public...
...issue of Harvard's role as an employer does not touch only support staff. Junior professors, who number about 400 in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, must cope with salaries too small to accommodate Cambridge's high cost of living, jobs that rarely lead to tenure and heavy teaching loads. Junior faculty members say their transient lives often leave them feeling detached from the Harvard community. The administration has begun to show concern for its junior professors, as Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence this week issued his second report on the subject...