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Tarrant, who was nominated for his teaching of Literature and Arts C-61, "The Rome of Augustus," and a Latin literature class, said he has always tried to gain knowledge and feedback from his students, even in large lecture classes...
Students across campus have their own thoughts and anecdotes about classroom dozing. "It was especially difficult to stay alert during Rome of Augustus when they would dim the lights to show slides," adds Justin Z. Musinich '00, "And when they hand out slide lists so you don't really need to write things down yourself, it's all over...
There was a time, long before the age of John Kennedy and Bill Clinton, when world leaders didn't risk their careers surreptitiously pursuing sex. They pursued it openly and risklessly. The Roman biographer Suetonius had this to say about the Emperor Augustus: "His friends used to behave like Toranius, the slave dealer, in arranging his pleasures for him--they would strip grown girls of their clothes and inspect them as though they were for sale...
...Heiress is more broadly embraceable than James's work, the reason may be that its authors, Ruth and Augustus Goetz, have streamlined and softened a brittle, merciless story into something like exquisite melodrama. The characters, for whom James himself had little affection, have more obvious motivations (the extreme foregrounding of Dr. Sloper's grief for his wife, for example) and higher tides of emotional exclamation ("He must love me, someone must want me," Catherine yells. "I have never had that!"). Moreover, the authors don't ignore that dictum of audience-pleasing, "Let the underdog have her day." In fact, though...
...Pope Professor of Latin Language and Literature Richard J. Tarrant, who teaches Literature and Arts C-61: "The Rome of Augustus," was hopeful about Core growth, predicting "students will see a few more new offerings next year...