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...token quality of the award doesn't exclude the element of distinction, Chase later said. "People have different ideas about what distinction means...
...common element of the old and new systems that creates this problem is the "maximization of first choice" principle. Once lottery numbers are assigned, the Freshman Dean's Office runs through the list of first choices granting each rooming group its first choice contingent on its availability. Then, it goes through the same process with the second and third choice list. In this system, there is an incentive to outguess the competition. A person could increase his chances of success by putting down a less desirable house. This strategic behavior defeats the purpose of house selection. Freshmen are supposed...
...affinity for such musical architects of the baroque as Vivaldi and Handel. Morris can find the dance in the music. Like Balanchine, he can hear a piece whole and render a fresh visualization of it instead of transcribing it as a pattern or making it serve as an organizing element for arbitrary action. In Jealousy, a solo set to Handel, he fills out the score with large, writhing moves and smaller, intimate ones that serve as a kind of punctuation. In Mort Subite (Sudden Death), made for the Boston Ballet, he uses a repeated figure in Poulenc's Organ Concerto...
...there is an element of pathos in all of this, it is nowhere more evident than in the case of professors who have been victimized by the advent of technology. For example, an art lecturer I saw in mortal combat with a projectionist, describing the curves and masses of a cathedral for five minutes before realizing the image on the wall was that of a nude. After another five minutes had passed in total darkness, and he had totally given up on ever seeing the right slide, it suddenly appeared in full glory in the middle of his face. Watching...
...first element of the new interventionism was proclaimed in President Reagan's 1985 State of the Union address, and has become known as the Reagan Doctrine. The President pledged American support to "those who are risking their lives on every continent from Afghanistan to Nicaragua to defy Soviet- supported aggression and secure rights which have been ours from birth...