Word: acclaim
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Twenty-seven years after the Core Curriculum burst onto the stage of higher education to cheers and high acclaim, it is about to be booed off. Yet it would be foolish to birth a new general education curriculum in isolation; the Core’s record must be carefully considered, lest the new system repeat its flaws. Change must begin with a fundamental shift in the Core’s administrative structure. Currently, a distinct lack of discerning judgment and capacity for constructive criticism plagues the Core’s current stewards: the Faculty’s Core Standing Committee...
...fantastic show. The chorus, singing “There’s a place for us,” reminded the audience that there will always be a place at Harvard for Bernstein, and the legacy of his music remains grounded in Boston and Harvard despite the worldwide acclaim Bernstein has received for so many decades...
...High Fidelity” will open on Broadway next month if it receives enough acclaim from the Boston audience. One can only hope that Generation Yers who lost their indie music (or actual) virginity because of the movie, as well as anyone with an ear for musical theater, will protest this horrible wrong...
Anna Politkovskaya, the celebrated 48-year-old Russian journalist whose coverage of the war in Chechnya won international acclaim (including being named as one of TIME's European heroes for 2003), was assassinated outside her apartment last Saturday. The fact that her execution-style killing coincides with an escalation of Moscow's campaign against neighboring Georgia will be taken by many in Russia as a chilling signal of the rise of an authoritarian nationalism that brooks no challenge...
...Willie Stark and his decline into corruption. Ambitious Government concentrators and wannabe Faulkners melt for this stuff. Steven Zaillian’s new film adaptation of “All the King’s Men” must meet the expectations of devotees of the classic novel, the acclaim of the Academy-Award winning 1949 film of the same name, and the rabid Oscar hunt of its star Sean Penn. The movie will likely accomplish none of these goals, except perhaps the last. And even then, only if Matt Damon is taken out at the awards ceremony...