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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...
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...
Maguire also was a key to the Harvard power play, as many of his canon shots from the point either went into the net or were rebounded home past dazed goaltenders...