Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first of the environments, called The Royal Voyage, consists of early pieces from the '50s that are too distinct and fragmentary to work together, but it prepares one for the Nevelsonian themes -those dark spikes and points, the torso-like fragments of turned baluster that are her equivalent of the cubist guitar, the plaques and table forms, the totems...
...urge to do something better, something distinct, is the very essence of human nature. Constant individual competition is only one manifestation of the impulse that is, in its deeper workings, nothing less than the engine for the advancement of the species. This was no doubt so even in unrecorded ages. Now that society has become so proficient at keeping records as a way of celebrating the competitive trait, it is no wonder that people get so carried away in the making and breaking of them. Moreover, the likelihood is that in the future, well...
...volunteer force, TIME held a seminar that brought together five of the nation's experts on the subject: Morris Janowitz, 60, Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and one of the nation's few academics to study the military as a distinct group within society; Melvin Laird, 57, who as Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1973 led the fight for the all-volunteer force, and is now the Washington-based senior counsellor on national and international affairs for the Reader's Digest; Senator Sam Nunn, 41, the Georgia Democrat who is chairman...
Dinner, a distinct cut above most cabaret fare, comes from a kitchen that also provides more elaborate menus for the Rainbow Room and nine private dining rooms. (At lunchtime the whole Rainbow complex is a private club for businessmen.) But then, when les girls are on, few eyes are riveted on the leg of lamb...
...report strongly suggested that professors teach courses outside their own disciplines in order to increase cross-area activity. Although Haskett explains that this recommendation--because it proposes the integration of distinct academic areas--doesn't conform to the existing organization of the B-School, the new course in the first-year curriculum will be taught by faculty members from both the Organizational Behavior and the Productions and Operations Management areas. Haskett adds that several other professors will also be teaching first-year courses outside their own areas. This increase in cross-area activity, he says, is in line with...