Word: understands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Academics: "I never took physical biochemistry. A lot of people couldn't understand why I took Jazz History instead." Coming to Harvard from Lindblom Technical School, Sample found that his mathematics and chemistry were up to par, but "my English skills and my history were impaired greatly. In English I had a really hard time. I met with my teacher twice a week and worked on every paper I turned in. I floundered in some areas." Sample dropped Spanish A and stubbornly refused to take his father's advice to study Latin, which he had studied in high school. Some...
Thirteen-year-old Tucker McCrady didn't understand his first stage role. He was cast in Waiting for Lefty at his Sewannee, Tennessee school. Called on to play a Jewish doctor during the Depression who was being fired because of his religion, the young McCrady was confused, especially about why the doctor was fired. But after long rehersals with the director, McCrady could act the part without really understanding it. A few months later his school was set to perform the Mikado. But McCrady sat that one out: "It sounded Japanese, and I couldn't sing and didn't want...
Another way to understand the scope of property acquisitions made in 1986 is to realize that as of last June, the accrued purchase price of Harvard's commercial and residential properties in Cambridge was $40 million. That figure represents what the University originally paid for its nonacademic properties, says Harvard's Financial Vice President Thomas O'Brien...
...picture is what Kalb plans to focus on at the center. The task of the Barone Center is to formulate an academic program that will enable both graduate and undergraduate students to understand the unique relationship between the press and the political world, he says...
Changes in the way the government functions have thrust the press into a more influential political role, Kalb says. "No policy of this government--or any administration--can succeed in this democracy unless the people understand and support the policy, no matter how brilliantly conceived," he says...