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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...computer science professor said the QRR should emphasize more conceptual thinking and make students more comfortable with the data analysis it attempts to teach...

Author: By Carolyn J. Sporn, | Title: Double Cores to Be Reviewed | 11/9/1989 | See Source »

...loved those years," Bush told assembled guests. "They did, indeed, teach the great end and real business of living...

Author: By Darcy L. Tromanhauser, WITH WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: Bush Goes To Andover | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

Having acquired a certain license, in my 40th year, to speak of the "younger generation," I must confess that all this rather severely depresses me. On the Harvard campus where I teach, for example, rarely, if ever, do I see the brazen, sap-running spectacle of a hand held, a partner embraced, a kiss tendered (wet or dry), and I cannot help but ask these high-flying, career-tracing, dollar-sniffing, supposedly "younger" persons of the passionate years (to quote someone from their generation, Tracy Chapman): "If not now...when...

Author: By Michael Blumenthal, | Title: The 'Base Compromise' of Youth | 11/4/1989 | See Source »

...have observed this phenomenon not just in the apparent abstinences of the flesh, but everywhere, and I have seen it for years. The poetry students I teach, to my enduring amazement, write rarely if ever about love, and even more rarely about sex. I am, for that matter, more likely to find in my collected stacks a poem about their difficulties with their Macintosh than with their girl- or boyfriend! Where my generation's favorite bumper sticker may have been "MAKE LOVE, NOT WAR," theirs, I am virtually convinced, will in no time be, "MAKE BUCKS, NOT LOVE...

Author: By Michael Blumenthal, | Title: The 'Base Compromise' of Youth | 11/4/1989 | See Source »

...visible [as Wilson was, but] she is considered a feminist and, in the past, would occasionally teach a course on women's studies," says Martha Vicinus, a professor of English and women's studies at Michigan...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: Wilson Taps Former Colleague for Radcliffe | 11/4/1989 | See Source »

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