Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will not go into a detailed criticism of the arts since Harvard's weaknesses are well known, and, I believe, generally accepted. Harvard has always maintained that the creative arts as a full-time occupation do not belong within a university. In this it conforms to universities in other parts of the world. If Harvard also excluded other professions, Law, Medicine, Business, etc., then there would be some justification for excluding artists. But, on the contrary, the professional schools have an enormous impact on undergraduates: in my years in Cambridge, it was an impact that far outweighed the 'liberal arts...
...owned and run according to all the newest methods. All steel and glass, humming machinery, it is a symbol of the new Italy, the post-war industrial revolution that has transformed a rural agricultural-based economy into a modern industrial state. Northern Italians have watched that transformation: the grandparents belong to a rural world, a preindustrial way of life that had continued almost unchanged for centuries and centuries. Their grandchildren are grewing up in a society that is in many aspects indistinguishable from America...
...black ties and bald heads could belong to old college classmates at a 40th reunion. The Supreme de Volatile Eugenie on the menu is standard hotel chicken with yellow gravy, and the platitudes served up by the speakers might be heard at any nostalgic or vaguely patriotic gathering. But the memories are not of the promise of youth or of bright college years. Mostly, they are of spying...
Horner, and some of his teammates who belong to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, hold prayer sessions every Saturday morning before games. "The Saturday prayer sessions help me remember that I'm not playing for my own glory." Horner said...
Ruma would like to see the development in Cambridge of unused land. "We should utilize the Kendall Square area, put something there, factories or houses instead of just putting soccer fields where they don't belong...