Word: canonized
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...Williams style. And after fans see the film a few dozen times, and a few pops orchestras play the score at holiday concerts, maybe Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone will join Superman, Raiders of the Lost Ark and so many other Williams works in the canon of American pop culture, forever etched in our collective consciousness...
Steeped in the Western canon and the weight of his own intellectual superiority, Hitchens’ book would be worth reading even if all he had were the trappings of a superb stylist—an obvious delight in the English language with which to cast his scrutiny, and a spiked wit that sometimes cuts at the expense of a proportionate level of intensity. In fact, he takes pride in obsessively driving points home, devoting an entire chapter in this slim volume to the art of being considered boring in pursuit of one’s ideals...
...most difficult question for the Faculty in shaping the new requirement, however, is which texts should be chosen. Hundreds of books have a claim to inclusion in the canon, and even in a year, there are only so many works that students can read in any depth. The course should focus on works of the highest literary, philosophical and historical merit and with the greatest ability to illuminate those cultures and traditions that have affected the intellectual development of the world which Harvard students will enter. They should be chosen by a high-level committee of professors and administrators...
...know it will be difficult to replace the Core, revise the required science courses or build a new canon for a course in Great Books. But Harvard has an obligation to decide what to teach its undergraduates and provide a foundation for informed exploration. The program for change described above would give students the freedom to pursue more advanced studies and to seek literacy in the sciences. It would also introduce them, perhaps for the first and only time, to the works and ideas that serve as vocabulary for their future learning. It would stoke intellectual curiosity and help Harvard...
...files," says Jack Williams, a managing partner at the law firm Thacher, Proffitt & Wood, which lost its offices on floors 38 to 40 at 2 World Trade Center. New scanning technology could mitigate those losses in the future: the latest optical-character-reading scanners, produced by Hewlett-Packard and Canon, can create digital archives of documents, enabling them to be accessed as CD-ROMs. "We've purchased additional scanners since the attacks, and we'll probably use more of them," says Williams...