Word: brooklyn
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...Tufts faculty inaugurated its World Civilization program in 1992. Many other schools are providing excellent core programs. I have visited a number of these. My first and perhaps most memorable such experience was to attend Harvard-trained Hardy Hansen's "The Classical Origins of Western Culture" class at Brooklyn College in 1991. When Lynne Cheney, then-chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, released her landmark 1989 booklet "50 Hours: A Core Curriculum for College Students," the Brooklyn program was cited as exemplary...
Others admit that U.S. job prospects are cramped, but then go on to make a virtue of necessity. "There are about 12 million students in colleges across the country, and this economy cannot absorb all of them," says Michael Kahan, a political science professor at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. He tells his students, all within a subway ride of Wall Street, to think globally if they can't find work at home. "Their skills could be put to better use in less developed places like Mexico and the former Soviet Union," Kahan argues...
...apotheosis of baseball reaches its apotheosis in Baseball. As he did so brilliantly in The Civil War and half a dozen other documentaries on American history (Brooklyn Bridge, Huey Long), Burns mixes archival footage with commentary from assorted experts -- sportswriters, ex-players and other students of the game. Ty Cobb once called baseball "something like a war"; these box-seat philosophers, shot in contemplative, dreamy-eyed closeup, treat it as something like a religion. "Baseball is a beautiful thing," says sportscaster Bob Costas. "The way the field fans out. The choreography of the sport. The pace and rhythm...
...arrival in Miami he recalls being mystified by toothpaste, apples and English. But he soon adapted. In high school he won a TIME-sponsored art scholarship by creating a hypothetical cover for the magazine. Later, another stipend enabled him to attend Brooklyn's Pratt Institute, where he majored in painting. Graduated just two months ago, Rodriguez designs our Letters, Contents and To Our Readers pages (including this one). TIME has also used his illustrations...
Coming from, say, a neoconservative, this challenge to the left would be about as surprising as the Pope proclaiming his faith in God. But the Brooklyn-born Genovese, 64, the distinguished scholar-in-residence at Atlanta's University Center, has impeccable leftist credentials. Marxist theory, he readily admits, informed his landmark study of slavery in the American South, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. Briefly a Communist Party member, he remained, by his own admission, "a supporter of the international movement and of the Soviet Union until there was nothing left to support." Particularly shocking to Genovese...