Word: alston
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...their loss of control over students' educations. Many of the reasons cited for curricular reforms sound like the same ones the fathers of general education offered in the early 1900s at places like Columbia, the University of Chicago, and Harvard. The speeches are so much alike they prompted critic Alston Chase to write in September's Atlantic Monthly that with the Core, Harvard is only "reinventing the wheel." Chase warns that the rest of the educational world may blindly follow suit without trying anything more innovative...
...politics, which complicates general education reform. Atlantic Monthly says departmental power struggles and the ensuing need for compromises between competing interests ensures that no single, clear vision of educational priorities guides faculties. "Somewhere in the profusion of competing interests, the goal of the pursuit of knowledge was submerged," says Alston Chase. "At best it surfaced as one of the values being touted...
...work, the Evans influence is unmistakable, especially when there is such close available comparison. This is not to say, however, that while influenced by the same man, the photographers appear in any way related to one another. Arbus's portraits of human oddities bear little resemblance to Alston Purvis' color details of plain doorways and windows other than the similar oblong shape of their frames. As the catalogue to the exhibit states, "Each one saw a slightly different side to the man, and Evans was a master at revealing different qualities to different people." The key to the success...
Although Evans disliked the role of the almighty teacher and prophet, he understood the young artist's need for contact with an accomplished artist; he hoped their interaction with him might eventually lead them to some kind of independent vision. His influence on Alston Purvis (a former student of his at Yale) John Szarkowski and William Christenberry is obvious. There exists a common interest toward the inanimate, the objects and architecture of our environment. Purvis' color photographs mostly detail windows and doorways and explore the play of light in them. He exhibits the same fascination Evans does for the seemingly...
...Banks played in 2,528 games, had 9,421 official times at bat and logged 2,583 hits for a lifetime batting average of .274. The same volume also records a loser who had but one time at bat in the majors - and struck out. His name: Walter Emmons Alston...