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wth. Citing writer Joan Didion, Faust defined an improvised life as that magical crossroads of rigor and ease, structure and freedom, reason and intuition. She also cited jazz great Charlie Parker, who said, Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that and just play. Uncertainty and improvisation are important even in fields known for precision, such as physics and medicine, Faust said. And in the arts, improvisation is a spontaneous expression based on structure and research. Faust ended her speech with reflections on her own mencement, in 1968. Students in the late 1960s and early 1970s graduated at a time when dramatic social change seemed possible. That promise was lost, but has returne