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...alters one's view of his work, as retrospectives are meant to--but downward. It is, however, a delight to visit. One could write a little dictionary of received ideas about this engaging "primitive." It would begin with his nickname, the Douanier. (He was not, as MOMA's excellent catalog stresses, a customs inspector, but a much lowlier form of bureaucratic life, a gabelou, or toll collector.) The dictionary would go through a whole list of legendary things that Rousseau did not do or see or say, things he cooked up himself (such as the innocent fiction that...
Harvard's and Ronald Reagan's policy of "constructive engagement" are clearly the only positive influence we can assert. Both Harvard and the Reagan Administration have shown good faith, the latter recently publishing the most complete catalog of violated liberties in South Africa to date in the report prepared under Undersecretary of State for Human Rights, Elliot Abrams, Harvard is not blindly acting as an accomplice in racial hegemony. It is pursuing the only practical option keeping its hand in to best promote change. Mark P. Lagon...
While professors use the CUE Guide to fine-tune their teaching and compare themselves with their colleagues, students are its main consumers. When it's time for undergraduates to shop around, sitting down with the Guide and the course catalog is standard procedure for more than...
...nearly three-quarters of a century, the heavy oak drawers and musty, dog- eared cards of the New York Public Library's catalog room were the index to knowledge for countless scholars and schoolchildren. Last month, however, the card catalog served up its last title, author and book number. As part of the main library's $45 million face-lifting, the catalog room is being computerized, its 8,973 drawers and 10 million cards replaced by a central memory bank and 50 low-slung terminals. Instead of thumbing through stacks of 3-by-5 cards in search of a book...
...three-year-old adult education program publishes a new catalog of nearly 100 courses every six weeks Started by Boston University grad student Frank Pinto. Learning Adventure also offers course ranging from helicopter piloting to jingle writing...