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...valuable as that class was, it is not enough. Chamber music is only one part of the vast musical canon. At Harvard, because of concentration and other Core requirements, I will not take a class on symphonies, opera or choral works, and I will be the poorer...
...course, says Pasquale, as references to the canon of social theory roll off his tongue, he prefers Habermas' work for its social theory rather than its philosophical conclusions. He finds Charles Taylor a much more interesting philosopher...
According to the Academic Affairs Committee (AAC) of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, ethnic studies comprises Afro-American Studies, American Latino Studies, Asian American Studies, Native American Studies and Comparative Ethnic Studies. The purpose of these disciplines is not only "to broaden the extant canon of knowledge to include experiences and contributions of groups historically excluded from such consideration," but more significantly, to create "an approach striving towards multiple positioning of race/class/gender/sexuality" and "[to reinterpret] existing paradigms through which the meaning of the human experience is apprehended." We agree with the first of these two tenets. American...
...Grisham's first novel, A Time to Kill, arrives in movie theaters with Sandra Bullock. Since movie versions of The Firm (Tom Cruise), The Client (Susan Sarandon) and The Pelican Brief (Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington) have cumulatively grossed close to $600 million worldwide, adaptations of the rest of the canon...
...people look at [Joyce] as part of the English canon," she said. "I tried to look at him from an Irish perspective...