Word: catalog
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Neither Harvard nor its students benefit when undergraduates are condemned by the course catalog to vast lecture classes or forced by artifacts of scheduling to courses that they dislike. Harvard can adopt requirements that expose students to varying approaches to knowledge while at the same time guaranteeing them the widest range of choice...
...period scrubs away the cynicism and the fatigue that build up over the course of the year. For a few days, we are once again brand new first-years: eager, passionate, curious and hopeful. There are hundreds of courses to choose from, and anything is possible. With our course catalog in one hand and the CUE Guide in the other, we set out on our academic journey...
...process to acquire books was complicated. Libraries had to fill out detailed applications specifying--in triplicate--the size of their facilities, whether or not they owned a card catalog system, the number of books in their collections, their budget and their interest in Hebrew, Yiddish and German books...
...Hughie and I preferred to live with the tenant farmer's family in their unpainted, weathered house half a mile down the road. My brother, Charles and I stayed up reading the Montgomery Ward's catalog by the coal oil lamp, fantasizing over the cowboy boots that were available for $5.95 (an impossible sum of money), and falling asleep in sleeping bags on the living room floor. (The news the other day that Montgomery Ward's had gone out of business bumped in my mind against Jimmy Carter's voice and memories - all items from a lost world...
THEN AGAIN... For all the dramatic incident and giddy camerawork (Schnabel, whose day job is painting, wants to keep this canvas moving, for any or no reason), the film is pretty logy, a trudging catalog of depredations and atrocities. Bardem hasn't the charisma to bring variety to Arenas or his plight. The only leavenings are guest turns by Depp (good in two roles, as the torturer and a drag queen) and Sean Penn, in gold tooth and brownface, as a skeptical peasant. Penn's twisted delivery of the line, "I won't join the rebels"--it comes...