Word: canon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thirty years ago a liberal arts education was defined by the Western canon. The University felt it had a mission to ensure that no student would leave Harvard without a strong basis in Dante, Shakespeare, Plato, and of course, the Bible...
...Western canon that so closely shaped a liberal arts education a generation ago is still a foundation of many academic fields, many professors agree...
Critics didn't know what to do with Canon O'Brien, so they just trashed his show. Until recently. Viewers and writers are taking a second look and revising their first opinions as the new Late Night hits its stride and shakes off the ghost of David Letterman...
...easily imagine what a canon track would look like: a survey of the ancients and medievals including the early Greeks and readings of Plato and Aristotle, followed by a short stay in the Rome of Augustus, moving on to a study of the Hebrew and Christian Bible, and then, a look at the works of Augustine, Aquinas and Maimonides. This would comprise the first two courses in this six-track cassette...
...third part of the canon track would be a survey of Western art and music, primarily in the Renaissance and after, thus blending the fine arts surveys with some of the clapping for credit courses in Literature and Arts...