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...went with a friend who loves classical ballet. Reading the program note for the second dance "Locus"--"The score for 'Locus' is a random ordering of 27 points on a cube of space immediately surrounding the standing figure"--she moaned, "It sounds awfully theoretical." But an awareness of the theoretical nuances of avant-garde dance is an initiation to familiarity with the academic language of classical ballet. The initiation makes you an insider, one party to a compact between artist and viewer. Once you're familiar with the compact, you can appreciate the dance as dance...
...shooting a pistol at a jet aircraft passing over Venice Beach, not even that lonely gesture of narcissistic aggression could be called original. Had not André Breton, the pope of surrealism, announced 50 years ago that the ultimate surrealist acte gratuit would be to fire a revolver at random into a crowd on the street...
...minority recruitment program may have a random quality because of this division of responsibilities among alumni and staff members. Brad Richardson, a Harvard admissions officer since 1969, says that of the roughly six weeks he spends on the road recruiting each year, he does some minority recruitment work "just about every day. For example, every school in Miami where I recruit has a certain number of blacks and Spanish-speaking people, so you're bound to run into some of those kinds of people there...
...Random House; 190 pages...
...addition, current regulations direct the House Committees to choose 11 people at random to form a selection board, which decides whether to pick candidates by ballot, lot, or an "alternative procedure." Then, CRR representatives are selected from the Houses' candidates by lot. Similar procedures apply to the freshman class and GSAS. If such a selection procedure provides us with a fairminded, competent, interested representatives, we will have only Lady Luck to thank. The reform proposals make no change in this procedure...