Word: canonizations
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Freedman, who is reportedly a candidate to succeed Bok at Harvard, stated his opposition to the "great books" approach to curriculum reform, characterizing programs structured around a standard canon of works as vain efforts to recapture an academic "Camelot...
...onstage is not ours, but pertinent to it. Director A.J. Antoon has taken considerable liberties (one character is called Joe Bob), and he uses the setting as much for slapstick buffoonery as for literary insight. But the show, the 14th in producer Joseph Papp's cycle of the Shakespeare canon, works better than any since the opening A Midsummer Night's Dream, also by Antoon...
...Catholic canon law prescribes excommunication for specified moral or ecclesiastical offenses, including procuring an abortion. But bishops like O'Connor are breaking new ground in publicly applying the penalty to politicians who vote pro-choice or favor abortion funding. Father James Provost of the Catholic University of America says that a bishop could theoretically take such action under catchall canon-law provisions concerning errant church members, but he says such instances are "very rare." Though there was speculation that O'Connor would not have issued such a sweeping statement without tacit Vatican approval, Rome has no public policy...
...they will have had, on the surface, a very different kind of Harvard Experience from their predecessors in the Class of '70. They will have been taught by a few more women, a few more minorities; they will have read a established canon of "great literature." And among their ranks will be hundreds of students who attended classes offered in Afro-American studies and the first graduates of a fully accredited women's studies program...
Gonzo: Gonzo was always an perservering muppet. No matter how many times he got blasted out of a canon, he still bounced back. Gonzo is the patron saint of QRR failures and Crimson compers...