Word: transformative
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...skepticism is shared by some experts, including Alfie Kohn, an educator and author in Belmont, Mass. "Most of what passes for character education is behavioral manipulation, not an invitation to reflect on values," he says. "It's no way to transform a community to say, 'Today is Tuesday; it must be Honesty day,' or by giving kids doggy biscuits...
...students' plan would transform RUS into the "Radcliffe Foundation for Women,"--which RUS Co-President Kathryn B. Clancy '01 said would be modeled on the Harvard Foundation for Race and Intercultural Relations...
...many of us, is dialectically invested with both anticipation and dread--is once again underway. The squadron of landscape-artists has been unleashed; like Stravinsky, they aspire to create a magnum opus of the season's rituals. With ardor, with bags of dirt, they have already begun to transform the Yard from a relatively pleasant, serene meadow into a confusion of cordons, chemical grass simulacra and bare patches of earth hideous to behold. Harvard subsists on tradition: the Yard is made repellent each spring and this one is no different. Why bother, one is compelled to wonder...
...many of us, is dialectically invested with both anticipation and dread--is once again underway. The squadron of landscape-artists has been unleashed; like Stravinsky, they aspire to create a magnum opus of the season's rituals. With ardor, with bags of dirt, they have already begun to transform the Yard from a relatively pleasant, serene meadow into a confusion of cordons, chemical grass simulacra and bare patches of earth hideous to behold. Harvard subsists on tradition: the Yard is made repellent each spring and this one is no different. Why bother, one is compelled to wonder...
...when the ink on the merger agreement dries and Radcliffe College does transform into the new Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, a challenging web of logistical changes will be required to document the move...