Word: virtualization
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...what gives it added impetus in the film is Kirk Douglas' moving portrayal of a man whose intense idealism precludes both pity and understanding. That the hard-bitten New York detective sees his problem and realizes his inability to deal with it is the tragedy of the play. His virtual suicide at the end of the movie is not just an easy way out for the play-wright; it is the only possible resolution of the conflict...
...please the querulous ears of music critics, the members of string quartets usually have to play together until they are grey. The Juilliard String Quartet is made up of virtual youngsters who have been working together for a mere five years, but even the critics have to admit that they are good...
Generations of boredom with the Latin and Greek classics have resulted in their virtual disappearance from the U.S. curriculum. Gilbert Highet, Anthon professor of Latin at Columbia University and a popular author (The Classical Tradition, The Art of Teaching) as well as a classical scholar, thinks that dull and stylized teaching is responsible for the students' indifference. This week, talking to the New York Classical Club, Highet explained his criticism. Teaching classics as "perfect books by perfect men," he said, "[will] make them inhuman and impossible for the young...
Robert "Pepper" Martin and John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History, both disagreed with Brewster's proposal. "MacArthur would be a bad appointment," said Martin, "because he could not shake his psychological and emotional background of five years as virtual dictator of Japan...
...reformers, members of the League of Women Voters, formed the Cambridge Committee for Plan E the predecessor of the present Cambridge Civic Association. In 1945 reform government in Cambridge nearly failed because the Cambridge Committee for Plan E had begun to lose its prestige and power by taking a virtual "holier-than thou" attitude. The Cambridge Civic Association was founded then, and from that time on, the City Council has been CCA dominated...