Word: upper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have seen an upsurge in Americans' concern over their right to peer beyond the "classified" label that veils the actions of governments, agencies and institutions. At Harvard, though, at least one area has held fast against the onslaught of freedom of information legislation. Outside of the University's upper administrative echelons, few people know how the Overseers' visiting committees perceive the schools or departments they visit, nor does the Harvard community learn which of the committees' recommendations are put into effect...
Israeli author Yoran Kanuik will talk about "The Emerging Jewish Identity of Israelis" at 8 in the Adams Upper Common Room...
...source of the Hitchcock classic "Strangers on a Train," Wim Wenders' new thriller is frighteningly effective. Bruno Ganz and Dennis Hopper turn in the best performances of their careers as a dying Swiss picture framer and a psychologically-shattered American who helps manipulate the picture framer into murdering an upper-echelon Mafioso, and Wenders' sharp eye and dramatic sense hone the film to a remarkably fine edge...
...followed by four briefer movements. Of these, the most famous is the air, better known--and better forgotten--in its romanticized solo version as the "Air for the G String." The orchestra played superbly: enormous lyricism and sweetness never obscured the tightly-crafted framework, the silvery line of the upper strings poised against the muted rhythms of the bass. Far from being "mushy" or banal, Wilkins's reading was almost reverent, hushed and glowing...
...iniquitous pursuit of leather-jacketed punks, long relegated to tacky arcades and dingy diners, pinball today is played openly and avidly by scholars, doctors, scientists, showfolks, pols, brokers, journalists -members of the nervous trades. Manufacturers cannot supply enough of the new solid-state pins to meet the demands of upper-and middle-class families who want the erstwhile diabolus ex machina in their homes...