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...When you do a survey like that, you go on the assumption of a canon," says Zerner. "One really cannot defend simply a survey of Western...
Persuasive as Graff can be, his book fights a battle that is largely won. Stanford's acrimonious debate on a compulsory course in Western civilization took place five years ago. Most campuses have long since rejected the idea of an immutable "canon" of indispensable Western classics in favor of recognizing the reality that, long before p.c., curriculum has always evolved in response to the changing marketplace of students. A generation or two ago, it demanded validation of America's cultural maturity. Today it demands diversity. The 1991 Heath anthology of American literature, widely used in colleges, begins with Indian chants...
...only remember the fantastic cheering andthe riotous emotion of the crowd," says TheReverend Canon Harold Bane Sedgewick `30, a loyalCrimson fan who will attend his 57th Game thisweekend in New Haven. "It was just extraordinary.I have a tape and when I get lonely I play it.There will never be another game like...
...these machines to modify them so they will run his new programs. Judging by the blue-chip companies that will be sharing the dais with him when he unveils his system this week at the Hotel Macklowe in midtown Manhattan -- Hewlett-Packard, Ricoh, Compaq Computer, Minolta, McCaw Cellular, Canon, NEC and Northern Telecom -- he seems to have made remarkable progress. Says Paul Saffo, a research fellow at the Institute for the Future: "This may not be it, but it is one more step toward the Holy Grail of the paperless office...
Right now the powers-that-be seem to consist of Allan Bloom supporters who believe that the standard of American excellence is the canon of white American history, literature and culture. Why should anyone accept this kind of standard, which creates SAT analogies like "'dividends is to shareholders' and 'checkmate is to chess?'" The debate has raged back and forth among educators and policy makers for many years now. The conclusion that they have come to is that a change in the content of the SAT is necessary and beneficial. It will help more than it will hinder...