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...this fall, he came to begin work on a home for the practice and instruction of the visual arts at Harvard. With his characteristic black glasses sitting upon his beaked nose, Corbusier’s arrival marked not only the birth of a significant piece of the modernist architectural canon, but also a significant—and to this point, unparalleled—moment in Harvard’s historically tenuous relationship with contemporary art and architecture...
Things have since changed. No longer is the Western canon given its due respect. Students at some schools have the ability to ignore it altogether, spending their time taking trivial classes on pop culture or feel-good multiculturalism. This trend in higher education, which Gregg’s course embodies, has hurt the learning experience of many college students in this country, allowing them to graduate with no real sense of the intellectual tradition that created their world...
...that is due as much to the producers of the project as to the buzz around the project itself; since Toy Story, Pixar has rightfully earned the attention and respect of serious film critics, appealing to thumbs-uppers and thumbsuckers alike. The studio’s well-crafted canon, which also includes Monsters, Inc. and last year’s instant classic Finding Nemo, has had a profound influence on the world of animated film, pushing traditional two-dimensional animation into commercial obsolescence...
...dust. "God is not something that can be demonstrated logically or rigorously," says Neil Gillman, a professor of Jewish philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. "[The idea of a God gene] goes against all my personal theological convictions." John Polkinghorne, a physicist who is also Canon Theologian at England's Liverpool Cathedral, agrees: "You can't cut [faith] down to the lowest common denominator of genetic survival. It shows the poverty of reductionist thinking...
...market for digital cameras grew to $17 billion in 2003, and sales are expected to soar 39% this year, according to research firm IDC. And since introducing in 1996 the DSC-F1, one of the first affordable digital cameras, Sony has gone on to capture an industry-leading 18%. Canon is close behind with 16%, and Olympus and Kodak have 13% and 12%, respectively...