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...Berkeley as Model...
...teach-in started with a film about University of California at Berkeley's ethnic studies program...
Organizers said Berkeley could provide a model for a future program at Harvard...
Some ethnic studies advocates openly admit that the primary purpose of ethnic studies is not to study great works but to engage in much-needed ethnic therapy. They claim that ethnic studies programs will promote racial harmony and equality. Ronald Takaki, an ethnic studies professor at Berkeley, writes in A Different Mirror that through the study of various ethnic groups, "the people of America's diverse groups are able to see themselves and each other in our common past...
...campy, shameless best, the Broadway Beauty brings to mind Busby Berkeley movies, Radio City Music Hall spectacles, the Ziegfeld Follies and Fourth of July at Disney World. You may be amused, you may be appalled, but you cannot fail to be agape. The one thing this riot of color and noise does not bring to mind is the modern Broadway musical, which can delight in scenery and special effects but is most concerned with evoking emotion and telling a story...