Word: joylessly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...play's message is that an individual does not stand a ghost of a chance in a tyranny. Despite some farcically funny moments, and a brigade of song-and-dance gypsies-presumably immune to Communism's joyless coercions-The Suicide, as of 1980, iterates the obvious...
...terms of real dollars, spending has not increased since he took office. The flip side of financial efficiency, however, has been what one official labels the "corporatization" of Harvard. The University, he says, has become increasingly bureaucratized, routinized and inflexible since Bok took office; the result has been a "joyless" administration. Bok and his advisers realize, as Steiner says, that the controls have "no doubt had a negative effect on the 'feel' of the University," but they insist that they had little choice. "Harvard does run more like a corporation," says College treasurer George Putnam '48, "because...