Word: uses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work on her second field trip, to the Admiralty Islands of New Guinea. She has made eleven visits to far-off South Sea islands,-first studying peoples relatively untouched by modern civilization, then returning to gauge their dramatic postwar changes. She was one of the first anthropologists to use still and motion pictures to record the customs and habits of primitive societies. She was also one of the first to develop the subscience of semiotics, or the study of how men communicate by gestures...
...them and guide them." This may be somewhat easier for Xenakis (whose full name is pronounced Yahn-nis Zen-nahk-ess) than for some of his peers. An accomplished architect, engineer and philosopher as well as a composer, he is enough at home with an IBM 7090 computer to use it in calculating his compositions, which owe a large intellectual debt to the universal language of science: mathematics...
...second proposal calls for the elimination of all public use of evaluations of first-year exams. The students are requesting that these records not be used for membership on the Law Review, the Board of Student Advisors and in Legal Aid. Another aspect of the proposal would prohibit use of these evaluations by prospective employers...
...article is a semantic one. Students who continually work closely with their professors on an individual basis sometimes prefer to term their complaints about departmental policy "suggestions" rather than "demands." If this is so, Miss Cantarow, a signer of the letter, might be more circumspect in her use of language...
...climbing out into some sort of fresh air and freedom. But the interruptions and the noise that make dorm life what it is make studying impossible. The constant noise creates a constant non-transcendant now and here. The roar of meals, the music other people use as futile anodynes for the same conditions, the telephones, the feet, the piano in the lower regions, the voices and the plumbing make the space she is sitting in come alive as a huge, swaying, indifferent body...