Word: relentlessness
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Because of the relentless pace of technogical advances, a final area of exploration will no doubt be issues relating to computers. The last year alone has seen a tremendous surge in the computer facilities here, as well as a proliferation of opportunities for students to obtain cut-rate hardware from companies eager to cultivate the potentially lucrative Harvard market. Harvard is trying, slowly, to come to grips with a technology that has thus far outstripped educators' abilities to capitalize on it fully...
...they are content to make movies-movies that career from thrill to giggle and back to thrill again at 24 frames per second. Nobody does it better; no one has ever done it with quite so much relentless ingenuity. They broke out by going back. Lucas proved with the Star Wars trilogy that the Old Hollywood formula of moviemaking, cagily updated, could work wonders at the box office and in the toy store. His movies are Hardy Boys tales for the space age: they shine like Plexiglas, are as durable as Teflon and have the aftertaste of Tang. Spielberg...
...That relentless quest for self-knowledge has led her to the Masai tribe of Africa, the mountaintop villagers of Bhutan, the Indians of Peru, often on the spur of the moment. She explains, "I would make a beeline out of the country in an effort to find myself I would clarify my value system by plunging into a different one." She regarded her career at times as a nuisance. "I was most interested in working out my own identity, and the characters I played took away from that," she says. "Now that I am happier, my desire for travel...
...entertain such high expectations of divestiture. We do not think Harvard's action alone will lead directly or immediately to the elimination of apartheid. Our realism cannot be taken as argument against divestiture, however Public conscience changes very slowly, and only by immense, relentless, cumulative effort. In our moral decision making, either individually or corporately, we cannot expect to "succeed" in a direct cause-and effect...
...sketch a simplistic, two-toned play about a milk truck and a coal truck. Often, too, he is so ready to find himself guilty of every kind of moral inattention and to punish himself unsparingly that his soul searching comes to resemble breast beating. Yet Fugard's relentless self-scrutiny guards him from the traps of self-indulgence. "Do I pose?" he asks himself. "I don't think so-but I'm very given to tears...