Word: ars
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Kamali once looked with contempt at her present trade. "I thought being a designer was the most superficial goal anyone could have," she says. "It's not like finding a cure for cancer, or being an artist." A graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology in 1964, Norma Ar-raez's real goal was to be a painter. But not a starving one. So instead she started out as a fashion illustrator. Wanderlust struck in 1966, however, and she joined an airline as a reservations clerk. On trips abroad, she always stopped in London to pick...
...course. Economics S-1500. "Financial Accounting," lost 26 students and sunk to sixth on the list this year. Others in the top ten include S-15. "Introduction to Psychology and Social Relations," Physics S-1. "Principles of Physics," Math S-1F. "Introduction to the Calculus," and Math S-Ar, "Precalculus Mathematics...
...high-rise Manhattan hotel, Mammon and the Grinch negotiated free-agent compensation, the main issue in the major league players' strike-the old push-and-shove of player freedom vs. owner control. But the noises coming through the door sounded rather slow and stupid, like Brer B'ar: "Ah'm gonna knock yo' haid clean off." If the Soviet Union had invaded and installed a puppet government in Washington, one could not imagine a more profoundly un-American summer than the one that suddenly seemed in prospect...
Every terms she puts up signs, advertises in newspapers, and holds introductory meetings for possible teachers for both Math Ar and the year-old Quantitative Reasoning Core course before settling down to a "frightfully complicated" screening process involving applications, three interviews--one with her, two with current teaching fellows--and a videotaped trial lecture before a group of course staffers. The videotape session is "pretty scary, worse than the first lecture," Kaye says...
Nonetheless, Hughes-Hallett says her scheme works. "I wouldn't change it now for anything," she says, but adds that its genesis was mainly "historical accident"--she intended when she introduced Math Ar in 1970 to draw section leaders from as wide a pool as possible, because "teaching introductory math courses is hard, and it's not clear whether having an enormous math background helps all that much...