Word: canonically
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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...
...imagine a professor in this department using books from that canon critically to study Afrocentrism itself critically," he says. "I know some students are genuinely quite prepared to criticize naive assumptions...
...their impending travels over the next 15 months -- to the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, to Tokyo, to the Philadelphia Museum of Art -- let opportunism prevail. With all the hoopla and reproduction, this will be the last chance to experience these paintings freshly before they join the huge canon of overreproduced masterpieces of early modern art. Then by all means reflect on Albert Barnes, and why nobody like him and nothing like his collection could exist today...
...piece, Multicultural Malaise (January 27, Crimson) fails to acknowledge the silences which pervade intercultural discourse in American and on this campus. An Ethnic Studies program would gather together the voices and experiences of peoples who, if recognized at all within current academia, are only footnotes to the more established canon...
Aggressive American manufacturers, who currently have about 15% of the Japanese PC market, quickly countered NEC's move with more slugging. IBM, together with the Japanese office-equipment maker Canon, announced the development of a notebook PC with a built-in printer that they would sell for $2,380. Fast-growing Dell Computer opened a subsidiary in Tokyo and began its famed direct sales to customers. In Dell's line...