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Word: would (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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University Hall brushes off Undergraduate Council resolutions as cavalierly as Louis XIV ever snubbed his subjects. Students can debate randomization until they are blue in the face without any real hope of influencing the administration, forming what Tocqueville would call "assemblies [with] no real power...

Author: By Zachary M. Schrag, | Title: The Old Regime and Randomization | 10/25/1989 | See Source »

...also cannot figure out why she considered five English seminars "perfect," but in her delusions, she did. Fortunately, I was there to guide her into the wonderland of the Core. And how would she know about...

Author: By Matthew Pinsker, | Title: The Pros and Cons of Harvard Siblings | 10/25/1989 | See Source »

...NOTEBOOK: Although the odds of a Columbia victory over Brown are slim (The Crimson beat Columbia, 6-0, September 16 and lost to the Bruins, 1-0, in overtime September 29), the Princeton game is still a very big one for Harvard. "A win would be a nice way to end the season for the seniors," Reilly said. "It would be a good carry-over to next year."..Junior stopper Tara Weinstock added, "It's a matter of pride. We really want to go out there to beat Princeton...

Author: By Peter I. Rosenthal, | Title: W. Booters Stay in Ivy Race With Shutout, 1-0 | 10/25/1989 | See Source »

...fact, they knew they had the best job in the world. No matter what, there is nothing a photojournalist would rather do than look at the world around him and take pictures of it -- pictures of living history, which means, especially, pictures of human behavior. If he doesn't get a thrill out of that job, if he doesn't wake every morning with excitement and go out with his cameras hanging on him like a gold prospector with his rock hammer in hand, % he's no good. Over the years some photojournalists have said to me, "if they didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Job in the World | 10/25/1989 | See Source »

...simply lucky shots, accidents. One day when Edward Steichen, the late dean of American photography, was taking a group of visitors through an exhibition of pictures by photojournalists, he was asked, "If you were to take all the lucky pictures, the accidents, out of this exhibition, how many pictures would you have left?" Steichen pondered that, and then he said, "Not many, perhaps. But have you ever thought how many great accidents have been made by great photographers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Job in the World | 10/25/1989 | See Source »

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