Word: organized
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...removal of a substantial part of the heart can severely restrict a patient's activities. In extreme cases, the organ's pumping action can be reduced by as much as 60%. To avoid these debilitating consequences, Jones' surgeon, George Magovern, wanted to try something new: bolstering her weakened heart with a muscle transplanted from her back...
...students complained earlier this year about the random, almost haphazard, manner in which tickets were assigned to freshmen, some critics have charged that the selection method for the 350th places too much emphasis on wealthy alumni and their links to the Harvard College Fund, the University's main fundraising organ. Stephenson, the man who is in charge of planning the whole 350th celebration, also served as one of the College Fund's top rainmakers before taking over his current post...
SINCE ACCEPTING TENURE here, Southern has written three books and is finishing a fourth. She praises the Harvard environment as one conducive to, and providing materials for, dedicated scholarship. Her publications include The Buxheim Organ Book (1963), Anonymous Pieces in the Manuscript El Escorial (1981), The Music of Black Americans: A History (2nd ed. 1983), and Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians (1982). She is also the co-founder and editor, with her husband, of the journal "The Black Perspective in Music," which boasts a 1000-person circulation reaching scholars from America to China to Africa...
...special 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...
...street and been verbally harassed, and any woman who has feared rape while walking alone in her own neighborhood at night--I might add there is not one female who has not--knows that fighting the image of woman-as-object, woman-as-silenced-victim, woman-as-sex-organ remains among her most urgent tasks...