Word: vision
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...that they fill Sanders," he says. "Once the audience has risen above about 100 or so, I don't think that the 'student's ability to learn' is affected. It can become, instead, a vivid, shared experience. There is surely nothing intrinsically wrong with very popular lecturers." Knowles's vision of a "vivid, shared, experience" reflects administrative insulation from the bustling and smelly confusion students live with Monday through Friday in Sanders and Science Center...
When Harvard lost Albert Carnesale, it lost a thoughtful university man who skillfully transcended student myopia and considered the many constituencies and goals of the university when charting its course. The university needs stewards with Carnesale's vision and fortitude if it is to withstand attacks on its integrity...
...your mother cuts your hair off, that's your life falling on the floor," a matron tells a bride-to-be. Nattel's women get not only the saltiest lines but also the feistiest roles. Childless Hanna-Leah, the butcher's wife, is freed from disappointment by an ecstatic vision and demands that her husband share the housework. Faygela, poet-mother of five, travels to Warsaw, where she encounters a circle of secular Jewish intellectuals and renounces Yiddish as "the dialect of garlic." Years later, one of Faygela's daughters converts to the new heresies of Darwin and Marx...
...channel the pain of those experiences into her music. "It wasn't someone writing for me; it wasn't someone telling me what I felt," says Hill, who wrote and produced the songs on Miseducation. "It was exactly how I felt the moment I felt it." Her maverick vision hasn't been without controversy. Late last year a group of four musicians who worked on Miseducation filed a suit claiming they deserved additional songwriting credits. Hill denies the allegations. Gordon Williams, who worked as the sound engineer on every song, says, "Definitely the driving force behind that record was [Hill...
...been made. Gates' TV appearance was part of a two-pronged effort: a Microsoft p.r. campaign to counter those famously snarly Gates videotapes, and a courtroom defense, begun in earnest last week, to fight the antitrust charges against the company. At the center of both is Microsoft's peculiar vision of the computer world and its place in that realm. Microsoft sincerely sees itself as a force for good--bringing PC users technical innovation and consumer value--and far from being a powerful monopoly, feels threatened on all sides. It's a radically different view from the government...