Word: modernizing
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...stood to cheer another chance for their team to win it all. And if this were not difficult enough, there is the added problem of our nearing the necessary moment when we have to say good-bye to Fenway Park itself and look forward to a new, modern stadium in its place. Looking out to right field Tuesday, I saw the numbers of Carl Yazstremski (8), Ted Williams (9) and Jackie Robinson (42--the player we had the chance to sign but didn't) blown down by the wind, surely a sign that nature itself wants a change...
Government professor Andrew Moravcsik, who teaches Historical Study A-12: International Conflicts in the Modern World, says that Harvard students may be too busy to attend lecture but he regards section attendance as paramount to a student's success...
...Professor Sandler is a remarkably gifted teacher who enriches the experience of Russian literature with a judicious application of various modern theoretical approaches," wrote Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology and department chair Michael S. Flier in an e-mail message...
Despite the contrived plot and deus-ex-machina ending, The Skulls, possibly unwittingly, demonstrates how there is clearly no place for these exclusive, self-interested groups on a modern campus...
Travelling by bus was depressing, stagnant and--above all--boring. I say this because I'm spoiled, and because I have a short post-modern attention span, but most of all because I am used (on many levels) to mobility. Airplanes can't be credited for inventing the metaphor or the disengaged social critic, but there's a strong connection between our intellectual movement in the world and our physical experience of travel...